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Also the state constabulary." "The hell they are," said the roundsman aggressively. But Willy Cameron was staring through the smoke from his pipe at the crowd. "They might do it, for a while," he said thoughtfully. "There's a tremendous foreign population in the mill towns around, isn't there? Does anybody in the crowd own a revolver? Or know how to use it if he has one."
"I suppose that's Perry now," said Tom. "Well, he can't do much in this beastly fog, anyway." "So long, Tom," answered the roundsman curtly as he slowly proceeded to resume his interrupted rounds. An advance guard of a few men had been sent ahead. They found the sentry at the barrack-gates fast asleep. When he awoke it was to discover himself surrounded by a dozen men.
Steingall and Clancy arrived before the roundsman had made an end of his experiences, which he had to recount for their benefit. The two detectives had resumed their ordinary clothing. They looked tired, but quietly elated, and it was noticeable that Clancy's mercurial spirits seemed to have evaporated.
Hogan has seated himself upon the steps of The Eclipse building for greater comfort and writes with a slow, leisurely fist: "The other hand of the clock points north and the second longest points south-east by south. I infer that it is five o'clock. The electric lights in Mr. Scalper's room defy the eye. The roundsman has passed and examined my notes of the night's occurrences.
"Hello!" he cried, "and where in Hades have you been?" "A long way from home, Mr. Evans," said the roundsman. "But it was worth while. This is Anatole, whose other name is Labergerie, the man wanted for the murder in 27th Street." "The deuce it is! Where did you get him?" "Away up beyond Yonkers." "Hold on a minute." He swung round quickly to a telephone, and called up Headquarters.
There it is, making for Fifth Avenue. Jump in! We'll explain as we go." The roundsman needed no second invitation. Obviously, unless some brainless young fool was trying to be humorous, there was no time to spare for words. He sprang inside, and Devar cried to the surprised chauffeur: "Follow that gray auto.
"He has turned into the Parkway at 110th Street," said McCulloch, and Curtis awoke with a start to a sense of his surroundings. "I suppose he's making for St. Nicholas Avenue," went on the roundsman. "Why?" demanded Curtis, whose recollections of map-study would have reminded him, in other conditions, that the avenue named by McCulloch is one of the few which slant across the city's rectangles.
Turning sharply, he caught sight of a patrolling roundsman, bearing down on him from the corner of Broadway; and he saw that the officer was drawing his revolver as he charged across the wet pavement. It was already too late to free himself. With an instinctive movement of the hands he caught up the manhole cover, shield-like.
I met Jack and a policeman, on my next trip, and he exclaimed: "'Why, ain't you gone out yet? and started off, telling the roundsman to keep the bunkos off me up to the shop. I thought then I was caught, but I was not, and the bluecoat bid me a pleasant good-night, at the shop yard.
Anyone who wanted to use it must have carried a key, I surmised. We crossed over stealthily. Garrick put his ear to an ordinary sized door which had been cut out of the big double swinging doors of the stable, and listened. Not a sound. Dillon, with the instinct of the roundsman in him still, tried the handle of the door gently. To our surprise it moved.
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