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Updated: July 15, 2025
Perhaps, it will come as an amazing disclosure to him that I've been on the sound side of this question all along." He began the work of cutting from the papers the accounts of the Loutois kidnapping. As he read them, he built up a tentative outline showing who the kidnappers were and where they probably had secreted the boy. He grew absorbed, whistling in a low key.
So far as he was concerned, the Withers case was a closed incident. Early in the afternoon he called Greenleaf on the telephone, and announced: "I'm leaving town for a few days tomorrow morning." "Again! What for?" the chief asked. "They've asked me to work out that kidnapping case in New Orleans the Loutois child." "Good! I'm glad to hear it; I congratulate you." Greenleaf was sincerely pleased.
It was the kind of thing he had foreseen as a result of the advertising he had received. He made his decision at once. For the past two days the Loutois kidnapping had commanded big space in the newspapers, and he was familiar with the story. Emile Loutois, Jr., young son of the wealthiest sugar planter in Louisiana, had been spirited away from the pavement in front of his home.
Bristow received them in his living room, the table still littered with newspaper clippings on the Loutois kidnapping. "If the rest of you don't mind," Braceway suggested, "we'd better close the windows. We've a lot of talking to do, and we might as well keep things to ourselves." The effect of alertness which he always produced was more evident now than ever.
Braceway's withholding the albino information, playing him for a fool, recurred to him, and the accustomed flush on his cheeks grew deeper. He would not forget that; he would pay it back with interest. He turned to the Loutois case. Going to his typewriter, he made a list of New Orleans, Atlanta, and New York newspapers.
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