The Old Man in the Corner

No. 26 still in, he called upon Mr. Shipman. The jeweller had had a few friends to dinner, and was giving them whiskies-and-sodas before saying good night. The serv

old the detective. However, Mr. Knopf insisted on talking to Mr. Howard through his bath-room door. Mr. Knopf thanked him for all the troubl

ered-but got no farther; no, nor anyone else, for that matter. Even I mi

oning, point by poin

and Mr. Knopf? Firstly," he said, putting up an ugly claw-like finge

tramp?" s

without waking, have his keys abstracted and then replaced at his own bedside. Mr. Howard suggested that the thief was armed with some anaesthetic; but how did the thief get into M

ut

been in possession of ￡25,000 worth of goods since Mr. Knopf had a cheque from him for that amo

anybody else, that at no time, while the tramp was in custody, while all that searching examinatio

called-well provided with some ill-gotten funds-but determined on a grand coup. They play at respectability, for six months, say. One is the master, the other the servant; they take a house in the same street as thei

sting to be detected. The Parisian stones are sold-not in business, of course-in the evening, after dinner and

the swindler caught. No! those exquisite Parisians were never intended to rest in Mr. Shipman's safe until the morning. That l

ouse. The man Robertson on the watch, while Knopf himself in ragged clothing found his way into No. 26. If Constable D 21 had not appeared upon the scene that exciting comed

one man for the next two days. It certainly never struck either the police or the inspector. Remember they only saw Robertson when in bed with a streaming cold. But Knopf had to be got out of gaol as soon as possible; the dual r?le could n

ents, lighting a pipe. The accomplice, then, was fully on the alert; he slipped the bolts of the back garden gate. Five minutes later Knopf was

again. The whole trick lay in one simple art, which those two cunning r

presumably-twin brot

opf-" sugge

e; you will hear that it is firmly established on a sound financial basis. He! he! he! and it deserves to be," added the man in the corner, a