There are no simple children
at Green Fancy. They are men with the brains of foxes and the hearts
of wolves. To deceive you was child's play. You are an honest man. It
is always the honest man who is the victim; he is never the culprit.
If honest men were as smart as the corrupt ones, Mr. Barnes, there
would be no such thing as crime. If the honest man kept one hand on
his purse and the other on his revolver, he would be more than a match
for the thief. You were no match for Chester Naismith. Do not look so
glum. The shrewdest police officers in Europe have never been able to
cope with him. Why should you despair?"
He sprang to his feet. "By gad, he hasn't got away with it yet," he
grated. "He is only one man against a million. I will set every cog in
the entire police and detective machinery of the United States going.
He cannot escape. They will run him to earth before--"
"Mr. Barnes, I have no words to express my gratitude to you for all
that you have done and all that you still would do," she interrupted.
"I may prove it to you, however, by advising you to abandon all
efforts to help me from now on. You did all that you set out to do,
and I must ask no more of you.
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