Well, we got him safely to the station-house, and then sent for Old King Brady.
After that I—but I think I’ve told my story about to the end, so I may just as well wind up right here.
Note:—Now, this is a case of double shadowing, and it illustrates also a great principle in detective science, (which is that when two men are earnestly working in a case, both determined to succeed) they will seemingly play into each other’s hands.
I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s almost always so.
Dave Doyle told me next morning that he was just as certain that Sam Kean would try to get his man out by the back way as he ever was of anything.
How did he know it?
Now that is something I can’t tell you—I can only say that the same thing has often happened to me.
You see I was inclined to suspect Opdyke, because I had taken the trouble to inquire into his habits, but I had no idea that Sam would get anything more than a clew that night.
Yet to make sure I had Doyle put on the door as butler, Mrs. Welton was perfectly informed of the whole plot.