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He bent down and examined it carefully. "Memoranda of some kind, I guess. I'll save this burnt paper and look it over later. Don't disturb it. I'll take it away myself." Search as we might, we could find no other trace of the firebug, and at last we left. Kennedy carried the charred paper carefully in a large hat-box. "There'll be no more fires to-night, McCormick," he said.
Tired as he was, he grabbed up his hat and started off to put the final machinery in motion to wind up the long chase for the firebug. "I must get a couple of hours' sleep," he yawned as he left us," but first I want to start something toward finding Douglas. I shall try to see you about noon." I was too exhausted to go to the office. In fact, I doubt if I could have written a line.
"And back of the whole thing, sir," I heard him say as he brought his large fist down on the table, "is a firebug mark my words." Before I could close the door, Craig caught my eye, and I read in his look that he had a new case one that interested him greatly. "Walter," he cried, "this is Fire Marshal McCormick. It's all right, McCormick. Mr.
"Taking up next the remarkable succession of fires," resumed Kennedy, "this case presents some unique features. In short, it is a clear case of what is known as a 'firebug trust. Now just what is a firebug trust? Well, it is, as near as I can make out, a combination of dishonest merchants and insurance adjusters engaged in the business of deliberately setting fires for profit.
I'd much rather have the whole thing done at once. Isn't there some way we can get the whole Stacey crowd together, make the arrest of Douglas and nab the guilty ones in the case, all together without giving them a chance to escape or to shield the real firebug?" Kennedy thought a moment. "Yes," he answered slowly. "There is.
How does that suit Your Majesty? till the fun begins when the firebug gets to work again. "Well, sir, when I got that letter," cried McCormick, "I was almost ready to ring in a double-nine alarm at once they have me that bluffed out. But I said to myself, 'There's only one thing to do see this man Kennedy. So here I am. You see what I am driving at?
Wait till the fun begins when the firebug gets to work again. "Well, sir, when I got that letter," cried McCormick, "I was almost ready to ring in a double-nine alarm at once they have me that bluffed out. But I said to myself, 'There's only one thing to do see this man Kennedy. So here I am. You see what I am driving at?
Jameson is an accessory both before and after the fact in my detective cases." A firebug! one of the most dangerous of criminals. The word excited my imagination at once, for the newspapers had lately been making much of the strange and appalling succession of apparently incendiary fires that had terrorised the business section of the city.
Maybe those sticks will explode under them, next thing we know." "Oh, just look here!" called Cleo. "See what I just kicked up! It's a bottle and has a note in it! Maybe it's a warning from the firebug," she finished, dragging from the sand a bottle and proceeding to pull out the paper which had been carefully wound with a cord, the end of which was brought out at the cork.
Jameson is an accessory both before and after the fact in my detective cases." A firebug! one of the most dangerous of criminals. The word excited my imagination at once, for the newspapers had lately been making much of the strange and appalling succession of apparently incendiary fires that had terrorised the business section of the city.
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