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Dat low-down white trash ob a giant is all right fo' guardin', but he ain't wuff shucks at detectin'!" said Eradicate, with pardonable pride. "By golly, maybe I's too old t' put on guard, but I kin detect, all right!" "If this proves true, I'll begin to believe you can," replied Tom. "Hop along, Ned!"
"Uh, ah!" murmured Shag, as, carefully, he put away the delicate rod and reel. "It's either fishin' or detectin' wif de colonel, dat's whut it suah am! Fishin' or detectin'! De colonel ain't one dat kin carry watermelons on bof shoulders!" Returning from his fishing trip with the one, lone specimen, Colonel Ashley, having escorted Amy Mason to her automobile, went back to the hotel with Shag.
There's as good fish in that stream as any I didn't catch, and I want to try my luck." "Yes, sah, Colonel. But, scuse me, didn't yo, figger on doin' some detectin' an' give up fishin'?" and Shag, with the freedom of an old servant, stood looking at his master as if not quite understanding the new twist the affairs had taken. "That's all right, Shag. You do as I tell you. I'm going off fishing.
Every one knows that a chicken's eye is mighty detectin'. They stroll along pickin' up bugs 'at you or I can't see with a magnascope, an' all 'at would be necessary to make 'em experts at money, would be to get 'em interested. The' 's allus somebody in a crowd who don't swaller bait as easy as the rest, an' bye an' bye a feller holds up a silver dollar to the rooster.
I am, as Shag calls it, 'detectin', and I just came out here to clarify my thoughts. Having done that, I'm at your service, if I can help." "Well, I don't know that you can. As I said, the facts of the separation of the Larchs will soon be heralded all over the city, for the final papers were filed to-day, and the reporters will be sure to see them. So there is no harm in my telling you about it.
"Well, but that was honest and straightforward in him!" said Mrs. Bigsby. "Um! but it wasn't business and ye see" Dan'l paused and rubbed his chin. "Well, go on!" said Mrs. Bigsby impatiently. "Well, ye see, neither him nor me was very smart in detectin' counterfeits, or even knowin' 'em, and" "Well! For goodness' sake, Dan'l, speak out!"
Then, leaning toward the newsboy and whispering, the negro said: "My marster, Colonel Brentnall dat ain't his real name, but it's de one he goes by sometimes he don't care fo' no detective stories 'cause he done make his livin' an' mine too, at detectin'. He says he don't ever want t' read 'em, 'cause dey ain't at all like whut happens.
It had been many weeks since his last call. "It isn't exactly a social call," he said apologetically. "We need your help, Cap'n Mike." The old man looked at him quizzically. "What for? Fishin' or detectin'?" "Detectin'," Rick answered. "Accepted! Now I see why you were lookin' for strangers. When and where do I start?" "Right now, at Spindrift. Can you come?" "Wait'll I turn off my coffeepot.
"It's the first time I remember when he worked on an invention without telling me something about it," mused Ned. "Well, I suppose it will all come out in good time. Anything new, Rad?" "No, Massa Ned, nuffin much. I'm detectin' around heah; keepin' Dutchmen spies away!" "And Koku is helping you, I suppose?" "Whut, him? Dat big, good-fo'-nuffin white trash? No, sah!
Don't you s'pose I know how to handle a job like this? I got my own idees how to waylay them raskils, an' I reckon I been in the detectin' business long enough to know how to manage a gol-derned tramp, ain't I? How's that? Who says I ain't?" "Nobody said a word, Anderson," meekly observed Jim Borum. "Well, I thought somebody did. An' I don't want nobody interferin' with an officer, either.
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