"By the way," said the friend, "do you ever hear of any
`touches' up the river or along the Sound?"
"Sometimes," answered the boss, pricking up his ears. "Why
do you ask?"
"Why, the other night, replied the friend, "I happened to be
meeting my wife up at the Grand Central about six o'clock and
I saw two yeggs that I knew taking a train out. I thought it
was sort of funny. Pittsburgh Ike and Denver Red."
"When was it?"
"Two weeks ago," said the friend.
"Thanks," returned the boss. "You must excuse me now; I've
got an important engagement."
Three hours later Pittsburgh Ike and Denver Red were in a
cell at headquarters. At six o'clock that evening the
necklace had been returned. This was a coincidence that
might not occur in a hundred years, but had the deductive
detective determined the question he would still be pondering
on the comparative probability of whether the cook, the chore
man, or the hired girl was the guilty party.
A clean bit of detection on the part of an agency, and quite
in the day's work, was the comparatively recent capture of a
thief who secured three hundred and sixty thousand dollars
worth of securities from a famous banking institution in New
York City by means of a very simple device.
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