The detective sat for a moment with immovable face.
"I am afraid," the detective said thoughtfully, "that I know no more about it than you do."
So the
Detective followed the Clew a whole year through a thousand sinuosities, and at last found himself in the office of the Morgue.
"I had reason for what I did, sir," the
detective said.
"You don't believe in the
detective police?" he said.
He thought his
detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true.
There was a violent peal at the bell, and in a few seconds the fair-haired
detective came up the stairs, three steps at a time, and burst into our sitting-room.
Like the least intelligent of
detectives I went on blindly over the traces of footprints which told me just no more than they could.
Now if you could get an old veteran
detective down from St.
You thought it was a
detective who made me turn tail at that inn.
But, seriously, in spite of what I heard you say to the
detectives, you surely cannot still believe in the possibility of Alfred Inglethorp's innocence?"
As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked
detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.