The Pulaskian., 1920-11-11
CHAPTER XII.

tell you now I've got enough informa- tion to know this is the sort of case we like tough case. I haven't been fooled bit. You may not be interest ed. Maybe no one here is interested, but I'm interested. Do you get that, Mir. Doctor, Mir. Representative, MT. Fiance? I'm interested This case is going to be gone into. There's a crime concealed somewhere which will do our agency good to discover. We sha'n't do it for money. We shall do it for publicity. The advertising will be worth thousands of dollars to US. Do you understand me?"
 "I know you can make life very mis- erable for us for a couple of days. You will lave to use your own judg- ment."
 T can pack that lawn out there with reporters and photographers from the city. They'll see and talk to Mir Sid ney. Take my word for that They'll see and talk to Mrs. Sidney and to Miss Sidney. I can bring that down to you by midnight"
 
 I said. You might suggest that to the newspaper people for their own good"
 "The shyster and that common thief Ann Forth got in. didn't theyT
 'I don't know Ann Forth"
 "No, but you know Agnes Mitchell. Well, you know Ann Forth, man. Say, you simpleton, you cont know what you're up against. This story just as it stands-copy of sheet from manu- script Spaniard-running off with Jed-theft of manuscript-death of shyster-Ann Forth back in house hidden erime-millionaire recluse- beautiful daughter--haunted house it's copy for every paper in the coun- try"
 I knew 1t and was appalled, by the certain prospects.
 1t would be a very cruel and use less thing to do," I said, but as told you you must use your own judg- ment We are not interested in this child's nursery story you are follow ing, and I do not intend to have peo- pie who are not well disturbed by the questioning of a detective"
 knew how to deal safely with Morgan, but the method was out of the question. I should indeed have been a simpleton If I had not known. All I had to ask was "How much?'
 We were wholly resolved against paying blackmail, knowing that 1t was only a gradual descent to ruin. It was better to go in one direct plunge if 1t were fated.
 Morgan looked at me steadily for few moments as if giving me chance to listen to the voice of reason. His method had been perfect. He was be- yond a legal suspicion, and I knew he was dangerous.
 "Well, young man." he said at last i've are both wasting time-at least I am. But it's only fair to you to tell you that this is not the end of the case. It's the kind of case we like, something tough and difficult. We may not make any money out of it, but when we are ready, we at least shall be paid in publicity You needn't be afraid of the reporters and photographers just now. It's too good a case to waste that way. There's al- ways that, no matter what we turn up.
 This case Is just good enough to spend some money on. It's just good enough to send a couple of men down to Montevideo. I'll tell you in advance that is what we're going to do.
 ''Well go into the life of Mr. Sidney with a fine-tooth comb, and we'll do it we'll We are accustomed to doing such things well. And we'll do this well. We'll get something here or in South America. We'll follow that something until we know why Jed copied two chapters of The Moon stone and hid them in box built in the springs of his bed.
 "Then we'll come back here and ask for little more cooperation in serv- ing the purposes of the law, and if we don't get some help, the reporters and photographers will be swarming on the lawn. That's all, Mir. Doctor"
 I knew at first glance that Morgans face was malevolent. Now saw it extraordinarily so.
 "PIl have Jed show you the door," 1 said.
 And tell him we do not know whether we take Dravada to South America or not. It will make him happy"
 Jed was scrupulously the servant as we dismissed Mir. Morgan.
 That was the fashion in which in-