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Show MODERN DETECTIVE AT WORK Little Show for Wrongdoer When the Up-te-Date Sleuth Really Qeta on Hla Trail. "Sir," said tho great detective, "you may as well confess. I always find out everything I go after' if deduction won't work, I use force." "But confound It, I tell you," spluttered splut-tered the banker, mopping his perspiring perspir-ing brow, "I say I havo nothing to confess 1 I have been at my desk evory afternoon for the past throe months, and I can prove' it" "Well, why don't you prove it?" demanded de-manded tho great dotectlvo. 'Because, no matter how hard tho wind blows, sho is still his mother," rotorted tho banker sarcastically. "Is that a Bpecles of tho capricornua hunkydory on your wrist?" cried tho great detective suddenly. "Whero?" said tho banker, and flung up his wrist Quick as a flash of buttered but-tered lightning tho great detectlvo seized it, stabbed It sharply with n small stiletto which ho had concealed In his hand, and as quickly whipped off his hat to catch tho resultant six drops ot blood. In tho sllcnco of his laboratory that' night ho examined them. "Tannic ncld! Just full of It," ho exulted. "He could novcr got himself in "that condition without attending tango teas every afternoon for months! Now to Identity tho. brand of tea by tho acid, thus locato tho hotel that uses it, and In that way discover tho woman and presto, his wlfo gets her divorce and I get a' 9X0,000 feo hce heo!" Exchange. |