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But of this norant, as

was all the city ignorant of the truth What happened was otherwise,

nor was the truth learned even by the great nized the existence of a "big story", and

added their keener noses to the trail The great fact overlooked by

them all was that they pursued no criminal, but a man of education, I

cases came to me, because I most

liked, precisely, that sort of case Once, for instance, a fah was disrupted by a series of anony an honorable man of dishonorable conduct The

letters left the ony of loyalty and suspicion

alike He brought me the letters, and to ot the repair slips of a certain typewriter house, and

compared the

as I did that each machine has its own individuality as ineradicable

and as inescapable as any personal handwriting So at last I went to a

s into a business house there asked to

see the stenographer in private "My dear Miss ----," I said to her,

"why do you persist in sending these letters to Mr ----?" I laid them