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"What do you know of this?" demanded the policeman Droom repeated his brief story "What is your name and where do you live?"

"My name is Elias Droom and I live over in Wells Street"

"Could you identify theover in this part of town?"

"Walking up to see the skaters on the park lagoon But what's that get to do with it? You'd better be out looking for the thief instead of wasting tiasped and there is no telling what ht have happened, if the captain and a swarm of bluecoats had not appeared on the scene at thatthe lake front in search of the mysterious hold-up man Two plain-clothes hbourhood in which the crime was committed

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"Does--can she throw any light on the affair?" asked Elias Droom

"She has uttered no word except her husband's na," said the young woht to be notified," said one of the men

"Don't do it over the 'phone," said Droo past his house I'll stop in and tell hiarments I'm an old man, you know"

The probable solution had come to Droom like a flash As he hurried up the street his mind was full of the theory He scarcely could wait for the door of David Cable's house to be opened in response to his vigorous ringing The h for Drooether in that instant David Cable's face was the one he had seen; not Ja when he bluntly told her of the mishap to her mistress, but he did not wait to answer questions He was off to find Ja was about to burst, and he knew it

Forgetting his wet gar store and telephoned to Bansemer's home His employer answered the call so readily that Droo There was a note of disappointment in his voice when Droom's hoarse tones replied to his polite: "Hello!"

"I'll be over in half an hour," said Droom "Very important business Is Graydon there?"