"No."
"Who comes with him?"
"Half a dozen other detectives."
"Then how will you have a chance to catch him?"
The detective was silent a moment. He looked Rigby all over in a supercilious manner, but at length answered:
"Don't you know how detectives work?"
"I'd like to have you tell me."
"He will hold his men in the background, and he will go alone to investigate, and call in his aids at the right moment."
"Ah! I see! and you will play against him?"
"If I am not interfered with I will."