"Never."
"Then it makes no difference to you, as you will never be known in the matter. How far is your boat from here?"
"Five minutes' walk."
"When shall we start?"
"It will soon be daylight; we had better wait until dawn."
"All right, and we will improve the hour or two we have remaining of darkness by a refreshing sleep."
CHAPTER XXII.
One adventure had led forward to another, and again to another, until the detective was well on his road toward the point where he could make a "closing in" attack.
He knew it would be a grand thing for him to run the gang clear down to their bottom methods.
The detective had been keeping tireless vigils, and sleep was what he most needed, and two good hours of undisturbed sleep was as much to him as seven or eight to an ordinary person.