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This is not a story of the Maharajah's e-net of which I have already spoken I erty, upon his own initiative, never proceeded an

inch beyond the keyhole episode It was one of his reat fictional detectives who never fail, Haggerty was

human, and did It is only fair to add, however, that when he failed

only rarely did any one else succeed If ever crierty's He had infinite patience, the

heart of a lion and the strength of a gorilla Had he been highly

educated, as a detective he would have been a fizzle; his hts, and the sordid would

have repelled hiround of

sordidness In one thing Haggerty stood a record there was not one instance of his

arresting an innocent eniuses on both sides of the

law; and the pariah-dog is always just a bit quicker hbred hound who hunts hireat fact is like a well-balanced kite; it has for its

tail a whierty, on a certain day, received twenty-five

hundred dollars from the Hindu prince and five hundred ement The detective bore up under the strain with stoic

coan--Chance" always had her