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I expressed ness to do all in 's papers contained the advertisement and I had several calls in answer to it These would have caused me much inconvenience had I not explained the whole ruse in confidence to a medical friend who made a specialty of the treat the hours specified in the advertisement When a patient would call I would satisfyfor, nor anyone sent by hiue, Dr Rhodes It would never have occurred to me to interest iven ard

"We have," he said, "to deal with a man possessed of ability of no common order We have already seen that he never runs a risk, however slight, which he can avoid It is more than likely, therefore, if our advertisement meets his eye and interests hiain, we are by no means certain that his interest in cancers is a purely personal one Perhaps it is a wife, a sister, or some other relative who is afflicted In this case we could hardly expect him to come himself Let me caution you, therefore, to closely scrutinise all applicants and question them until you are satisfied they are in nowise connected with the "

I followed this advicemyself that none of my callers had any relation whatsoever with the s was continued for several days with the sa upon a new clue he had discovered He would tell me all about it, he said, when he had followed it to the end This was on Tuesday On Friday he came to the house and informed us that he had met a man who had known a M Henri Cazot, a Frenchman whose description seemed to tally perfectly with nearly all we knew of Mr Darrow's an in response to Gwen's request that he should tell us all about it: "I deterhly search every book on the 'Weltz-Rizzi' list, to see if I et some additional clue In the work by Robert Houdin entitled 'The Sharper Detected and Exposed' I found the stateamblers often neutralised a cut in a pack of cards by a rapid and dexterous sleight This, the book went on to say, was acco manner: When the cards are cut and left in two packets upon the table, the sharper picks up with his right hand the parcel of cards which was originally at the bottoht above the other packet, as in an honest cut, but, just before releasing the cards, the lower parcel is deftly tilted up by inserting the right little finger under it, and the upper packet quickly slid beneath it, leaving the cards in precisely the position they occupied before cutting; For this purpose, the book continued, the nail of the right little finger is worn very long, so as to facilitate its being thrust beneath a packet of cards Here, I said to myself, is a possible explanation of one of the peculiarities of ertable If so, however, it would seem to indicate that our man is left-handed, while, as we have already seen, the writing upon the library slips would indicate that he is ambidextrous We need not, therefore, I reasoned, be surprised if we find that both little fingers have long nails I at once acted upon these thoughts and began a search of the ga resorts of this city In order not to excite suspicion I played a little in each place, watching e the proprietor in conversation In every case I followed the saentlener,--spoke French, a little under er nails, etc, etc I h the proprietor of one of the Hayward Place 'dives' had an idea such a man had been there, but only once or twice and he was not sure he could place him I then went up to the South End and on Decatur Street found a man who promptly responded to h, in all but the height and gait Dick there, he'll tell you all about him He owes hiave him his note for it, and Dick carries it around with hiet it, but he likes the writing M Henri Cazot! eh, Dick?' and he burst into a coarse laugh I turned to Dick for further information He had already produced ait out upon the table