Under His Thumb — page 135: what you’re looking at

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126 UNDER HIS THUMB. — “To no one.”’ =e ; “‘How, then, did it go out of your possession ?”’ ‘I do not know, except——”’ ‘*Except—what?”’ Carl Brandon compressed his lips and _ hesitated. His voice was firm, however, when he said: “It is the old story. I was intoxicated, and was foolish enough to show my weapon. An officer stopped, and said he couldn’t let me have sucha dangerous plaything. I gave it to him, and that is the last I have seen of it. How it came in the count- ing-room of Blain & Waldron, and the instrument of a crime I do not know. As I have said, I suspect, and my suspicions cannot become another’s prop- —erty.”’ Croly, in baffled expectation and disappointment, impatiently exclaimed: | “You are an important witness, Mr. Brandon. It is my duty to take you into custody !’’ " ena comicbooks.com |