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Updated: June 15, 2025
Yet he wanted both his prisoner and his prisoner's haul; he wanted his final accomplishment to be complete. "But how 'd we ever handle the deal?" prompted the tired-bodied man on the burro. "You remember a woman called Elsie Verriner?" "Yes," acknowledged Blake, with a pang of regret which he could not fathom, at the mention of the name. "Well, we could fix it through her."
And he had rejoiced mightily when his dragnet had brought up the unexpected tip that Elsie Verriner had been in recent communication with Binhart, and with pressure from the right quarter could be made to talk. This tip had been a secret one.
He inwardly resolved to make her suffer for that pity, to enlighten her as to what life was still left in the battered old carcass which she could so openly sorrow over. "Well, I 'm back," he announced in his guttural bass, as though to bridge a silence that was becoming abysmal. "Yes, you 're back!" echoed Elsie Verriner.
"I 've got your number, Elsie Verriner, alias Chaddy Cravath," he thundered out, bringing his great withered fist down on the table top. "I 've got every trick you ever turned stowed away in cold storage. I 've got 'em where they 'll keep until the cows come home. I don't care whether you 're a secret agent or a Secretary of War. There 's only one thing that counts with me now.
Never-Fail Blake, from the obscure down-town hotel, into which he crept like a sick hound shunning the light, sent out his call for Elsie Verriner. He sent his messages to many and varied quarters, feeling sure that some groping tentacle of inquiry would eventually come in touch with her. Yet the days dragged by, and no answer came back to him.
"I want you to take Picture 3,970 out of the Identification Bureau, the picture and the Bertillon measurements. And then I want you to give me the chance I asked for." "But that does not rest with me, Miss Verriner!" "It will rest with you. I could n't stool with my own people here. But Wilkie knows my value. He knows what I can do for the service if I 'm on their side.
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