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Updated: June 17, 2025
I wonder if Delbras and company know that leaving a couple of thousand of blue-coated Columbian guards out of the question, and they're bright fellows, let me tell you there are here three hundred and odd picked detectives, a squad at every gate, and every gate and every district connected by telephone with the main office here.
I had suspected it before, and was now convinced that unwittingly, in my attempt to play the guardian angel to Adam Camp and his wife, I had come face to face with Delbras. When I compared notes with Dave that night he was quite of my opinion.
I knew always just how his work stood, and should disaster or delay overtake him, I knew just how to report or to go on with his work, as he with mine. When he joined me, I saw at once that he was more than usually animated, and, contrary to his usual custom, he came straight to the business upon his mind: 'Old man, I have seen Delbras. 'You have found Delbras? I echoed.
It was vain to struggle. That Turkish fez had been to Delbras an open sesame through the packed mass of humanity, and for a time I saw it nodding above the lesser heads half-way between the door of exit and that half-concealing curtain.
'This business almost put it out of my head. I took a turn on that Intramural road this afternoon. 'Yes? I knew better than to interrupt at this point. 'And I saw, I am sure I saw whom do you think? 'Dave, that's like a woman! I'm surprised at you. You saw Delbras. 'Wrong! I saw, I'm certain of it, Greenback Bob. 'Good!
Following Dave's significant gesture, I went with him to the door of the room, where, to my surprise, Delbras, his face quite bloodless with rage and weakness together, was slowly dressing himself under the sternly watchful eye and steadily aimed pistol of Sir Carroll Rae.
As a result of my reticence, the young fellow had barely escaped with his life; even now, so the doctor said, fever or inflammation might put it in jeopardy. Well, it was not my only blunder, I thought, looking back, with a grim smile, to my first absurd exploit. But I would try very hard to make it my last; at least, where 'the gang, as Dave was wont to call Delbras and Company, was concerned.
As for the brunette, we might begin with her little confidence game, in which she did not secure Miss Jenrys' bag; charge her with the sale of the stolen emerald, and bring home to her the loss of the 'dew-drops' and other contents of the chamois-bag lost in her flight across Wooded Island when we found her again. But Delbras!
How I first established a connection between the crook Delbras and the fine gentleman who had taken New York society by storm as Monsieur Maurice Voisin was a wonder to many, until I had laid before them the process of reasoning by which it was done.
I have been in Chicago long enough for that. And he made haste to tell me how our chief had lately received from France papers authorizing the arrest of Delbras, wherever found, upon the charge of murder. The French police had worked out, at last, a solution to the mysterious murder in the Rue de Grammont.
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