The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 131: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

122 THE TWIN DETECTIVES. ‘<T wish you would be married soon, Charlie,” she said, every day. ‘‘ Well, mother, I am ready, if Estelle is willing.” Kstelle blushed, and said nothing. So the wedding was arranged to take place in the beginning of March. Charlie had not met Bob Brierly since the day they had the discussion in the inspector’s office. He had not taken any further trouble in the Cuthbert case. He did not believe Bob’s assertion that he was satisfied with the progress he was making. He believed, what was the true state of affairs—namely, that Bob was baffled, and at his wits’ end, and that he did not wish the fact to be known. He felt certain that the robbers of the vault were safe from Brierly, and that the mystery of the disappearance of the earl’s body would never be traced out by the English de- tective from Scotland Yard. Charlie had told his mother the history of the quarrel with Brierly, and had listened patiently to the ‘‘I knew as much,” and ‘* Didn’t I tell you so?” usually indulged in by members of the fair sex on such occasions. He was not sorry that he was well out of the business, oe he believed it was one of those cases that. set at naught the keenest officer—a case that there is no credit to be made out of—hard work, and neither profit nor reputation. He was out of it honorably; for he told the inspector of the conversation he had with Bob, and that officer was much | disgusted with the arrogance displayed by the Scotland Yard official, and treated him coolly afterward. He, also, put’no faith in Brierly’s boast that he was sat- isfied with the progress he was making. ‘‘ He has done nothing, and is not doing anything,” said the inspector. ‘‘The trail has never been taken up. It was lost at the vault, and it will never be found. ‘'These people are a little too smart for our cockney friend.” oe comicbooks (E(0) m =»