"Oh, it's the old miser business. I knew the moment that thing came out who did that job."
"It may be you did," said the detective wisely.
"Do you think we were in it?"
"You may have been."
"Then take us, and we'll have the laugh on you and the real game will skip. I say I can set you on to a dead sure game to prove your arrest."
"You can?"
"I can."
"How?"
"When I agree I can do it easy enough, but you had better get a pard. These villains are wild fellows; they might do you up."
"I'll take chances."