THE END OF THE " BALSHAW " CASE THEN all in a moment a curious thing happened ; as the de tective felt the coveted reward securely within his grasp, he ■ceased to be a machine , and became a man.
71 CHAPTER IX.  THE END OF THE " BALSHAW " CASE THEN all in a moment a curious thing happened ; as the de tective felt the coveted reward securely within his grasp, he ■ceased to be a machine , and became a man.  I saw it in his face, I felt it in his manner, and marvelled ; and the next instant I ■experienced it in his speech. "