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Could you follow me and take a look at a man who'll be with me there?" The Jew's eyes sparkled. "Yes, Mr. Braceway," he said and added: "It may cost me money, closing up the shop, you understand. But if I can help " "Don't misunderstand me," the detective cautioned. "There's no charge of murder. Nothing like that. This fellow may be the gold-tooth man, and still not be the guilty man."
As to the case of Jack, there had recently been enacted, on the public square of this southern city, a tawdry little tragedy in brown and coffee color, having to do with the fascinations of a certain damsel known in her own circles as the "gold-tooth girl."
Significance is what I'm after." "Well, you know Mr. Withers spent almost the whole day in here before the night of the murder. Once he went out. That was in the late afternoon to get some lunch. While he was out understand, while he was out in came the gold-tooth fellow. "It was bad luck. I kept him as long as I could, but he was hurried, nervous.
"Bower must have managed to open the safe while I was gone, and he must have made a hasty copy of some of the drawings of the silent motor, and passed them out of the window to this gold-tooth man, who tried to make off with them. Did you find anything on him?" he asked, as one of the men who had been instructed to search the stranger came into the office just then. "Not a thing, Mr. Swift!
"Also, there's your gold-tooth mystery solved! "As a disguise, the gold tooth is admirable. I mean a solid, complete tooth of gold, garish in the front part of the mouth. "It unfailingly changes the expression; frequently, it degrades and brutalizes the face. Try it. "Using my crooked nose as an every-day precaution, I always straightened it for night work.
Half an hour, forty minutes maybe, after the gold-tooth fellow had gone, in came Withers again, out of breath, complaining that he had picked the man up just outside here and followed him, only to lose him when the gold-tooth fellow went through Casey's store to the avenue. "I showed Withers the ring the fellow had pawned for a hundred dollars.
"Well, it's a mystery," decided Tom. "However, I got out of it pretty well. Only if that gold-tooth individual shows up again he won't get off so easily." Taking a lesson from what had happened, Tom was very much more careful in the following experiments on his new, silent motor.
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