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were stolen from a stateroom on the steamship 'Amerika' of
the Hamburg-American line. The London underwriters cabled
five thousand dollars reward and retained to investigate the
case a well-known American agency, which before the 'Amerika'
had reached Plymouth on her return trip had their
notifications in the hands of all the jewelers and police
officials of Europe and the United States, and had covered
every avenue of disposal in North and South America. In
addition, this agency investigated every human being on the
Amerika from first cabin to forecastle.
Within a year or so an aged stock-broker, named Bancroft, was
robbed on the street of one hundred thousand dollars in
securities. Inside of fifty-five minutes after he had
reported his loss a detective agency had notified all banks,
brokers, and the police in fifty-six cities of the United
States and Canada.
In the story books your detective scans with eagle eye the
surface of the floor for microscopic evidences of crime.
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