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Updated: June 24, 2025
When he came here he'd been admitted to the bar and was a good lawyer a mighty good lawyer for that time and had more business 'n a bird pup with a gum-shoe. He was just a boy then, and, like all boys, he enjoyed a good time.
In government jobs one learns those details by experience. For the time being there was nothing for me to do but to descend to the "gum-shoe" desk in Ancon station and sit in the swivel-chair opposite Lieutenant Long "waiting for orders." Toward noon a thought struck me. I swung the telephone around and "got" the Inspector. "All my junk is up in Empire yet," I remarked.
Not a soul in Hunston must dimly suspect what he had come for. It must be gum-shoe work from start to finish, and the Cypriani's motto would be the inspiring word, "Sh-h-h." Though he had to find a nondescript child whom he did not know from Eve, he was forbidden to do it in a natural, easy, and dashing way.
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