Guy Garrick

a million dollars' worth of automobiles stolen in this city during the past

thefts, though of course I knew of their

a most interesting case-the first big case I've had to test my new knowl

. "Garrick, I'd make ti

al moments, in s

read it, but I looked through it again, to

"newspaper pictures don't usually flatter people, but just look a

attracted my attenti

a moderate fortune, a

d at Tuxedo

my shoulder his mere

ed simply. "Half the young

door recalled us t

ed, stocky man, with everything but the name detect

aced young fellow, whose clothes proclaimed him to be p

which was the title of the Automobile Underwriters' Association. But I was more than surpris

of the city, at least as far as the newspapers were concerned. He was one of

atter of fact, the worst that could be said of him with any degree of truth was that he was gifted with a large inheritance

a cynical eye on possible black-type headlines of future domestic discord. Among those mentioned by the enterprising society reporte

rtain amount of notoriety by a crusade which she had organized against gambling in society. She had reached that age when some women n

e met his old friend, then, turning to young W

s. "Worse than that. I can stand losing a big nine-thousand-dollar Mercede

questioningly a

realize that the automobile as a means of committing crime and of escape has rendered detection much more difficult to-day than it ever was

he excitement of his re

like a discharged

ver critically, examining every side of it, and waiting

th, still examining the cartridge. "We haven't foun

did you get this cartridge-or, at least why do y

car was insured against theft in a company which is a member of our association. When

the police?

is the insurance companies and not the police who get cars back-usually. I suppose it's natural. The man who loses

clew, then?" pe

ney n

d with the description of Warrington's, although, of course, the license number and color had been

ed, leaned forwar

ed, horrified, "the car wa