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He might be directing the job from Rio or a Mexican port. But we were sure it was a Mulehaus' job. He sold the French securities in Egypt in '90; and he's the man who put the bogus Argentine bonds on our market you'll find the case in the 115th Federal Reporter.
"'No such person! he repeated. 'Why, Governor, before God, I found a man like that, an' he was a banker one of the big ones, sure as there's a hell!" Walker put out his hands in a puzzled gesture. "There it was again, the description of Mulehaus! And it puzzled me up. Every motion of this hobo's mind in every direction about this affair was perfectly clear to me.
Everybody, of course, knew that we were looking for the lost plates, for there was the reward offered by the Treasury; but no human soul outside of the trusted agents of the department knew that we were looking for Mulehaus." Walker did not move, but he stopped in his recital for a moment. "The tramp shuffled up a step closer to the bench where I sat.
Nobody could round up the holders of these bonds. "A big crook like Mulehaus could slip a hundred million of them into the country and never raise a ripple." He paused and drew his fingers across his bony protruding chin. "I'll say this for Mulehaus: He's the hardest man to identify in the whole kingdom of crooks. Scotland Yard, the Service de la Surete, everybody, says that.
I called an inquiry after him.... You see there were two things in his story: How did he get a dollar tip, and how did he happen to make his imaginary man banker-looking? Mulehaus had been banker-looking in both the Egypt and the Argentine affairs. I left the latter point suspended, as we say. But I asked about the dollar. He came back at once. "'I forgot about that, Governor, he said.
It's not what it used to be, a banker's business that we could round up. Nobody could round up the holders of these bonds. "A big crook like Mulehaus could slip a hundred million of them into the country and never raise a ripple." He paused and drew his fingers across his bony protruding chin. "I'll say this for Mulehaus: He's the hardest man to identify in the whole kingdom of crooks.
Everybody, of course, knew that we were looking for the lost plates, for there was the reward offered by the Treasury; but no human soul outside of the trusted agents of the department knew that we were looking for Mulehaus." Walker did not move, but he stopped in his recital for a moment.
"That gave me a new flash on the creature. He was a slicker article than I imagined. I was not to get off with a tip. He was taking some pains to touch me for a greenback. I thought I saw his line. It would not account for his hitting the description of Mulehaus in the make-up of his straw-man, but it would furnish the data for the dollar story. I had drawn the latter a little before he was ready.
DEAR COLONEL WALKER: When I discovered that you were planting an agent on every ship I had to abandon the plates and try for the reward. Thank you for the five thousand; it covered expenses. Very sincerely yours, D. Mulehaus. III. The Lost Lady It was a remark of old Major Carrington that incited this adventure. "It is some distance through the wood is she quite safe?"
He was saving me for the dry hour. He could point out Mulehaus in any passing chair, and I would give some coin to be rid of his pretension." Walker paused. Then he went on: "I was right. The hobo was waiting for me when I came out of the hotel the following morning. "'Howdy, Governor, he said; 'I located your man. "I was interested to see how he would frame up his case.
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