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hearted police. but he sang a differ
ent tune when opened up on him.
t2ok O. chance and told him that
Spanish Lou and Diamond Harry had
quarters telling all they knew. and
then | sprung it that we were look
ing for those emeralds. He swore
by all the little fathers Of Russia
that he never saw them nor heard Of
Crawford. but when Martin pulled
saw that the game was up and made
q grab down behind the counter.
3'And where were you while them
two lads were making the pinch?" in
quired Dennis.
II got to him before he reached
his gun" he remarked modestly. II
took q glass case with me that was
filled with cuff-links and such, and
there was a bit Of commotion
Ko:.Ka the Dasa %n. for to whe aR Sas
he>woke up. after the lietle nap he
decided to take. sudden. when he
first hit the floor. Some more of
the boys had come over from the
station house to keep the crowd back
and we got him into the room at
come across
"He knows who Crawford was all
right, though he won't admit 1t. nor
that he had the least suspicion the
emeralds were the same the papers
were making such e, boiler soi ;r,., about ut
jumped her bail. 1t seems that a
swell who gave the name of Foster
had sold him a pearl necklace and
some other junk and when Craw-
ford came he said Foster had rec.
commended him there. Creveling had
aids from his wife. not steal them,
for he arranged with Kosakoh to
hold them for three months and
agree to sell them back to him for
thirty thousand: he must have been
in, tight squeeze. for he only got
for Ilsa's bali when his wife was de-
termined to send her up"
well. why wouldn't she be- ,pen. Den.
only her side Of it? 1t was tough
luck, OF course. her being innocent
and all. but Mrs. Creveltng didn't
know that and you can't blame her
tof wanting the thief punished
MGarty shook his heaa. .,.t..w..
a matter OF principle with her SO
much as protection. I've got an idea
that after she started the rumpus
about the robbery, and called In the
police she got more than a suspicion
of-the truth. but twas too late to
back down from the stand she had
taken and lisa was the goat, Mrs.
Creveling IL a hard woman. with the
hardness that comes only to the proud
when something has made them suner
and they don't take 1t right. There
some that tribulation makes gentle
and forbsaring and 80 some tn ina. LII IL turns rms
thinking her husband broke her
heart, and IL it hadn't been for her
i1ride she'd have kicked him out long
ago. 'Tis not love for him now that's
made her so set on finding his muir
derer, but other women have been
suspects some woman Is at the bot
tom of his being shot. AS long as
all this notoriety and scandal have
been brought down on her anyway,
she's going to find that other woman
and make her suffer. too' or l miss
my guess"
eret for all the harm she'd done lisa
when you told her the TRUTH"
"Oh. yes" McCarty's lip curled.
IT'S her own lawyers thatll help
Quash the indictment. and her own
influence through old Alexander
that'n smooth out the little matter
OF OaiI Jumpin6' anu d n@huSomS ce'
tlement she'll make on both Hill and
lisa. took the satisfaction OF
warning her that the matter Of settle
mcnt might be decided by the courts
II lisa brought action against her,
and 1 hinted that the both of them
more than suspected the truth. She'll
move heaven and earth to keep It
shouldn't wonder II them two was
fixed for life"
Twas a grand bluff you handed
her about finding the man that made
the fake emeralds, and that he could
prove Creveling brought the real
Where did you get hold Of the
fakes, anyway"
torted with dignity. where do you
suppose I've been the day. after see-
ing Kosakof off for the station
house? 1 started to hunt up all the
makers of imitation junk in town and
the fine paste emeralds he made and
put in the original settings for q
customer named Edward c. Craw-
ford-he did not show much ima9i-
nation in thinking up an alias for
himself, did he? pulled out a pic
ture Of Creveling that I'd cut from
torn of, and he said 1t was the same
man all right Kosakoff, under pres
sure. had identified the same pic
ture."
but the fake emeralds?" persisted
Dennit. You'd think after stealing
them away from his wife he would
have Md them good until he was able
to have them replaced by the real
ones"
HE did, Denny. and that's why
twas easy enough to trace them" Nc
Carly chuckled. "Of course, he'd not
leave them around the house or try
to hide them from Alexanders pryins
old eyes in one Of the ONCE safes. and
trust anybody much. especially In a
case like this. He seemed to like the
name Crawford since she'd used Il
twice already, SO I got q list Of all
the little cut-of-the-way branch banks
and trust companies. where they
rented safety deposit boxes and start
ed out to look for one that had been
ter Of two months ago. Well I knew
he wouldn't dare tackle any Of the
big, Fl ointment places, for Eugene
Creye1irg's. face must be prsSty well
known lin banking circles. I sent
Martin to Brooklyn and Yost to the
where Creveling or his father or Alex
ander had kept accounts, which mar
rowed the search down a lot. In
spector Druet lent me one Of the de-
partment's.. cars and twas well he
did, for where do you think found
what I was after? Over IN, Staten
Tradesman.s and Artisans Bank"
You've the luck!'' declared Dennis.
But who was this guy Foster that
Creveling said had. .recommepded him
to this Kosakoft? The one that sold