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Show Detective's Parable. Hilary K. Adair, tho well-known detective, de-tective, was complimented In Galves- j ton, Tex., on an arrest that ho had mado. The arrest had been mysteriously mysteri-ously achieved and Mr. Ada"lr was asked to explain It. Thls though, he refused to do. "Thero nro so many ways of catch Ing criminals," ho said, laughing "You know what the old man told his wife? She first said to him: " 'Doa't talk, John. You can't say 1 ovor ran after you.' " 'True,' tho old man assented. 'And you can't say tho trap ever runs after the mouse, either, hut It gathers him in Just th same.'" |