“Exactly. And so are you.” They both stared hard at each other for a moment. “I wonder what you have got hold of?” said Sinclair.
“That’s just what I was wondering,” said Collins.
“There’s one thing. This will put the real man right off. He will think he’s safe and may return,” said Sinclair.
“Return? What do you mean?”
“Oh, nothing.”
A clerk entered, and laid an early edition of the “Evening Rag” on the table. Sinclair picked it up.
“Read that,” he said, indignantly.
Across the page was printed:
‘MURDER OF THE HOME SECRETARY,’
‘SUSPECT ARRESTED,’
‘MAKES FULL CONFESSION.’
There followed an account of how that brilliant Civil Servant, F. D. Boyce, Commissioner of Police, after devoting his nights and days to the problem, had at last effected the arrest of a violent lunatic who had made a full confession of the dastardly crime.