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Updated: June 26, 2025
Scotland Yard, the Service de la Sûreté, everybody, says that. I don't mean dime-novel disguises false whiskers and a limp. I mean the ability to be the character he pretends the thing that used to make Joe Jefferson Rip Van Winkle and not an actor made up to look like it. That's the reason nobody could keep track of Mulehaus, especially in South American cities.
I saw his intention in every turn of it and just where he got the material for the details of his story. But this absolutely distinguishing description of Mulehaus was beyond me.
"'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. Every motion of this hobo's mind in every direction about this affair was perfectly clear to me.
"Of course we had gone right after the record of all the big crooks to see whose line this sort of job was. And the thing narrowed down to Mulehaus or old Vronsky. We soon found out it wasn't Vronsky. He was in Joliet. It was Mulehaus. But we couldn't find him. "We didn't even know that Mulehaus was in America. He's a big crook with a genius for selecting men.
The fact is the whole department was down and out. You may remember what we were up against; it finally got into the newspapers. "The government plates of the Third Liberty Bond issue had disappeared. We knew how they had gotten out, and we thought we knew the man at the head of the thing. It was a Mulehaus job, as we figured it. "It was too big a thing for a little crook.
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.
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