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91 vacant offices. | |them at it. I’m pretty certain that I see The janitor showed him about on the|a way of getting into that room. various floors but the detective never} ‘‘Now, then, how can I fix it so that I ‘ound anything to satisfy him until at|can catch them at work? It would be last he came to an empty office in a| possible to hang around Broad street and ilding whose main entrance was On| arrest the man whom I saw in the Chi- | nese laundry. se back windows of this building,| ‘‘He’s probably the same man who in- however, inakad out upon New Street|quired for me at the hospital, but sup- and from this ofice which was in the| pose | should arrest him, what good si perma o- radiata look across the} would that do! I’ve nothing against him t into the rooms he was|¢xcept Hatgood’s story which would not | be very good evidence, and if we should ~ He then found what he could not see|then break into the room of the Denver from the street below that there was a) —s Vomipany we | might not finda dark green curtain hanging inside the | thi: ys office which of course prevented | INO; ti n Ss g him from looking into it. Faskite somethin g that’s crooked. “phat curtain may be there just to have it!” keep out the afternoon sun,’’ he reflected,} With this Trim immediately leit his “and anyhow it’s likely to be raised | office and went over to Nick Car some time or other. JOwn town shop,’’ a room not far tan a PF onieaig I’d better engage this office Broad : ares er the great detective rue d ses and various Sitaed aiward: ~~~" It sometimes happened that he wate p \ /such things in a hurry and by having 'them down in this part of the city he ‘saved the time that would otherwise be 71] take this office!’ he said, ~ he drew his head in. a ments were soon made and) ee ‘used in going home for them. ; ies fice. Trim eee eres | Trim wie what he wanted and packed a 'it in a small parcel that he could easily 2 [take in his hand. | With this he returned to his office and ST scofal| ‘left in there; the rest of the afternoon he | Spent in idling about Broad street. . He was not surprised to see the man whom he had shadowed ane. ay bo wrist but the detective made n him, fr soon as he had got possession of his | othce Trim sat down 1 in | the window and | the | $3 and still the antteies| aay. ” > Yate in the afternoon Trim 'man leave Broad stre ecw railroad statio on i'l uptown train. 7 Meera by sot t ‘to > eet in there; more than | | where tie! mad : that, if I’ ing to convict these men of lived. Bs “This won’t Soe F oY he | ught, nd go ) to. an ele-