We turned to look at the Englishman's face. There was a little twinkle in his eyes, and a smile played over his face. He raised his glass to his lips after a gesture in Bartley's direction. Then, as he drained it, he said, and there was a laughing note in his voice:
“You pulled it off. But do you know I think the Yard could have done the same thing?”
The End
Transcriber's Note
This transcription follows the text of the book as it was published in 1926 by Dodd, Mead and Company. However, the following changes have been made to passages in Chapter XVII, to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the printing:
- “world would have spelled” to “word would have spelled”;
- “man named Wood” to “man named Woods”.
Additionally, incorrectly matched quotation marks were corrected in four places. All other seeming errors have been left as they appear in the original.