Under His Thumb — page 29: what you’re looking at

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20 UNDER HIS THUMB. “Great Heaven, man! how knew you of her - visit?’’ he hoarsely asked. | “T saw her as she entered and came forth—pretty fair evidence, you see,” the detective replied. “I even know that Mr. Waldron’s visitor was a certain pretty compositor in your printing-house. Her name and the object of her visit I shall ascertain in due time. As you now understand that | have a faculty of discovering all sorts of facts, you will see how useless your attempts to hide them from me must prove. But hush! Here come the officers who started out after that foreman of yours. And he has given them the slip.” comicbooks