“Yes, I do. And there was a detective, Mr. Watson, on his track all this time.”
“My goodness!”
“It’s about time for you to get excited. Here’s something more to excite you: Let me remind you that Mr. Smithers is a jeweler.”
Glennon made a pass with one hand before his eyes as if dazed.
“You don’t mean that Smithers and Gunseyt—” he began with a gasp.
“Here comes Watson; let’s see what he says about it,” interrupted Guy, as he signaled the operative to approach. “I bet he’ll say the ‘wireless’ part of those shoes and that racket was a fake. I don’t believe, anyway, that the electro-magnetic current picked up by a wireless receiving instrument is strong enough to have any effect in an induction coil.”
“I thought there was something funny in that,” Walter remarked.
CHAPTER XXIV
The Why of the “Squeak-Roar Voice”
“Yes, Gunseyt is a smuggler; so is Smithers and so is Pickett. We’ve been on their trail a long time, but couldn’t get the goods on them; and now after they were almost in my grasp, the goods have disappeared.”
This mournful statement was made by Watson after Guy had presented his deductions and asked a point-blank question regarding the occupation of the man with the “funny” voice.