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Updated: June 21, 2025
One is continually reminded of that inimitable chapter in Daudet’s Tartarin sur les Alpes, when the hero discovers that all Switzerland is one enormous humbug, run to attract tourists; that the cataracts are “faked,” and avalanches arranged beforehand to enliven a dull season.
"With dad watching, yes. Once, that is. But I've faked running it a hundred times there in the hangar. Suppose we could come down in your back lot? It's level and big enough, maybe." "We might hit a horse. Dad's got Daisy in there nights." "We'll have to chance it, I guess. But you hold on good and tight, because I'll probably pull the wrong strings at the last minute. Where are we now?"
"Yes, Sir Henry," he replied, "in the false bottom of an old steamer trunk." "And the hobo got the money?" "Certainly," he answered. "I put it into his hand, and let him go with it, as I promised." Again he was silent, and I turned toward him in astonishment. "Then," I said, "why did you begin this story by saying the hobo faked you?
The idea was that there was a pattern of thinking in sabotage, and if you could solve it, you could outguess the saboteur. But the trouble was to figure out the similarity he felt existed in say a private plane shooting rockets and overhaul mechanics planting booby traps and faked shippers getting bombs on planes and come to think of it, there was Braun.... Braun was the key!
This traveller, it seemed, would meet the case. But did he? Would there not, with him, be a certain risk? There would be a continuous passing through Customs houses, frequent searchings of the faked suitcase. Accidents happen. Suppose the traveller held on to his suitcase too carefully? Some sharp-eyed Customs officer might become suspicious.
They knew nothing about any telegrams till I informed 'em. They received no inquiry. They sent no replies, naturally." "That that Did that " The Governor pawed at his scraggly neck. "He faked all that stuff?" "Absolutely!" Comment which could not have been expressed in long speeches and violent denunciation was put into the pregnant stare exchanged by the two men.
So we may take it that whatever else they're up to, they're not carrying brandy in faked pit-props. Nor, so far as I can see, in anything else either." The three men smoked in silence for some time and then Hilliard spoke. "I suppose, Leatham, you can't think of any other theory, or suggest anything else that we should do."
They had already examined the body, and they gave clear and unhesitating evidence, identifying the old man as one Alexander McEwen, well known to the police of the silver-mining State as a lawless and dangerous character. He had been twice in jail, and had been the associate of the notorious Bill Symonds in one or two criminal affairs connected with "faked" claims and the like.
There was no big criminal case in which we were not retained for the defence and rarely a divorce action of any notoriety where we did not appear for one of the parties. This matter of Hawkins's was the first in twenty years in which he had ever deliberately faked an entire case!
The voices were untrained but from long experience in rendering every song each man carried his part without a discordant note. Evans sang a perfect bass. Bangs a clear tenor; Moore faked a baritone that satisfied all hands and Waddles wagged his head in unison with the picking of his guitar and hummed, occasionally accenting the air with a musical, drumlike boom.
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