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Haggerty dearly wanted to believe that the intruder was the one man he desired in his net; but he refused to listen to the insidious whisperings; he must have proof, positive, absolute, incontestable. If it was Crawford's man Mason, it was almost too good to be true; and he did not care to court ultimate disappointment. Proof, proof; but where?
And where might I find this obliteration, save in this life? Drugs? Pah! Oh, I have given Haggerty a royal chase. It has been meat and drink to me to fool the cleverest policeman in New York. Till yesterday my face, as a criminal, was unknown to any man or woman, save William here, who was my valet in the old days. I have gone to my clubs, dined, played billiards; a fine comedy, a fine comedy!
Now," said I, pushing aside my plate, and dropping sugar into my coffee, and vainly hunting in my pockets for a cigar, "there remains only one mystery to be cleared up." "And what might this mystery be?" she asked. "The whereabouts of the bogus Haggerty?" "The bogus Haggerty will never cross our paths again. He has skipped by the light of the moon. No, that's not the mystery.
Haggerty bawled, putting his head into the window. "Why, Haggerty, how are you? Can I give you a lift?" "If it won't trouble you." "Not at all. Pretty hot weather." "For my business. Wish I could run off t' th' seashore like you folks. Heard o' th' Maharajah's emeralds?" "Yes. You're on that case?" "Trying t' get on it. Looks blank jus' now. Clever bit o' work; something new.
"What did Jameson take away from you?" "Who are you, and what's your business with me?" The pipe-stem returned with a click to its ivory vise. "My name is Haggerty, of th' New York detective force; American Scotland Yard, 'f that'll sound better. Better tell me all about it." "I'm a British subject, on board a British ship." "Nothing doing in m' lord style.
"Plenty of gall," murmured one of the minions of the law, whom I afterward learned was the chief of the village police. "The card by which you gained admittance here," demanded the great Haggerty truculently. I surrendered it. A crowd had by this time collected curiously about us. I could see the musicians on the stage peering over the plants.
His words were implicitly obeyed, and outrage followed mere boycotting till the rapid succession of crimes prevented each one having its full effect in horrifying civilised Europe. A very bad case occurred in Millstreet. Jeremiah Haggerty was a large farmer and shopkeeper.
Lieutenant-Colonel Haggerty was killed about noon, before we had effected a junction with Colonel Hunter's division. Colonel Cameron was mortally wounded leading his regiment in the charge, and Colonel Corcoran has been missing since the cavalry-charge near the building used as a hospital. For names, rank, etc., of the above, I refer to the lists herewith.
From half after nine that night till noon the next day, without sleep or rest or food, excepting a cup of coffee and a sandwich, which, to a man of Haggerty's build, wasn't food at all, he searched. Each time he left the motor-car, the chauffeur fell asleep. Haggerty reasoned in this wise: There were really but two points of departure for a man in Mason's position, London or South America.
"This certainly looks black for the Rover boys," said Squire Haggerty. "How do ye account for having the goods on your persons, tell me that now?" "I can account for it only in one way," said Dick. "The thief, whoever he was, placed them there, for the double purpose of keeping suspicion from himself and to get us into trouble."
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