"Perhaps they did and perhaps they didn't—they proved my friends, and I shan't give them away."
"That's right, never go back on your friends. Now, then, Frank Mansfield, do you know who I am?"
"I know you are a detective."
"So I am. My name is Caleb Hook."
"I've often heard of you," said Frank, regarding him with some curiosity.
And who has not!
The name of Caleb Hook has for years been the most famous of the New York force.
"No doubt," replied that individual, quietly. "But to return to our subject in which I am becoming more interested every moment. I see deeper into things than you can expect to, my boy, and let me tell you in what you have related I see evidences of a deep and carefully laid scheme, of which this bank robbery forms only a part. Let me see that will you found in the box."
Frank took the document from his pocket and placed it in his hands.
"I've had no time to read it through," he said.