Excerpt: ...the slouch, the leering look, the head aggressively thrust forward, marked it plainly as of the class against which he had been pitted for years. Pg 173 "Yes," he replied, briefly. "We'd like to see him." "Right through the door," said the veteran detective. The two passed through the door indicated, and saw the burly figure of Osborne, comfortably installed in an easy chair, reading a newspaper. "Hello," said he, sitting erect. "That you, Scanlon?" "Me, with a friend." Bat grinned, highly entertained. "He wants ...
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Excerpt: ...the slouch, the leering look, the head aggressively thrust forward, marked it plainly as of the class against which he had been pitted for years. Pg 173 "Yes," he replied, briefly. "We'd like to see him." "Right through the door," said the veteran detective. The two passed through the door indicated, and saw the burly figure of Osborne, comfortably installed in an easy chair, reading a newspaper. "Hello," said he, sitting erect. "That you, Scanlon?" "Me, with a friend." Bat grinned, highly entertained. "He wants to have a little talk with you, I think." Osborne examined the figure before him attentively. Ashton-Kirk leaned against the office rail, his hands in his pockets, the rat-like thief to the life. The detective examined him carefully, but no ray of recognition came into his face. Then, like throwing off a garment, Ashton-Kirk allowed the mannerisms he had assumed to drop from him. Osborne at once sat erect with a laugh of pleasure at his own lack of penetration. "Good!" said he. "You almost fooled me." He arose and shook the criminologist's hand. "But what's the idea?" "I've just been paying a little visit," replied Ashton-Kirk. He seated himself upon the edge of a desk. "Anything new?" he asked. "Not much. We've still got young Burton, of course, but he's about as close-mouthed a proposition Pg 174 as I ever had anything to do with. He says he isn't guilty, but that's all he will say. We've given our evidence to the district attorney's office, and they'll pass it on to the Grand Jury in a few days." "You've still got it in your mind that he's the person you want, have you?" Osborne crossed one leg over the other and put his thumbs in the armholes of his vest. "I have," acknowledged he. "I've had a good bit of experience in these things, and it looks pretty straight to me. We've got the motive, all right, and it's a strong one. I think a good case can be built up around that, the candlestick and the testimony of the maid and nurse. As a...
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