The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 53: what you’re looking at

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44 _ HE TWIN DETECTIVES. So Jean cherished ill-will for the earl, and felt all the re- sentment a beautiful woman can feel for a man who is blind to her beauty, and insensible to her charms, «Well, McLean, I have good news for you,” said Mr. Hall, as we had better call him at present. “Yes, what may it be?” ‘“ Why, Brierly has gone off on board the Egyptian Mon- arch, that sailed to-day.” ‘‘ Why has he done this?” ‘‘ He thought we were on board. J had a man shadow- ing him. He went down to Montrose Hall, and had an interview with his lordship, hurried back, and was just in time to go with the steamer.” ‘* He has put his foot in it.” ‘« He has, by Jove.” ‘“What will you do next? We won’t go to New York, then?” ““Yes, we will. [ll manage so that Bates, the other de- tective on the case, will bring him back on another fool’s errand.” ““Can you manage this?” ‘‘Hasily. Bates can’t see any further than the end of his nose. Bob Brierly is the only man in Scotland Yard that I am afraid of.” . ‘Well, he has outwitted himself.” “‘ Just so—run his head in the mud. He doesn’t do it often, though.” Hall was not aware that Brierly had visited Short’s Gar- dens, for he severed his connection with the place very skill- fully when he left it. Brierly had no ordinary criminal to deal with. Hall had _ spent his life among roughs and run down gentlemen—the - most reckless and unprincipled people on earth. Lhe lessons they taught he remembered; the seed fell on fruitful soul. All his brain power was employed for evil. (E(0) nm => Eomicboo Si