You see, I hadn’t been thinking anything about the fellow, so why should I expect to see him? I was taken all aback.
I presume my readers expected an entirely different termination to this story.
Let me add, so did I.
I thought Sam was succeeding splendidly, I never dreamed that Dave had moved in the matter till I saw through his carefully arranged disguise as we three stood there on the rocks.
I have introduced this case simply to show you how detectives sometimes get left as well as other folks.
It was Dave, not Sam who showed us the secret entrance to the sewer in which the gang had their headquarters, and whither they had now retreated in fancied security. I had not been deceived by the false “steer.”
But I have not space enough left to tell how we captured them.
Let it suffice to say that we did capture them, that we scooped them in completely, and during the brief fight none fought better than Dave Doyle who captured his cousin with his own hands.
To this day I doubt if Mr. Patsy Malloy knows that it was Dave.
We broke up the sewer gang forever, and sent a lot of them over to the island, and now for the point I want to bring out strong.