He went by me like a rocket, as if he were afraid of
me."
"Sure it was he?"
"Positive. But the strange part of it was my interview with the banker.
He acknowledged that the bank had been robbed of the money, and
identified the bill dropped by Checkers in his flight, as one of the
shipment, but when I announced that it was a counterfeit, he went all to
pieces, and, after trying to bluff me into giving him the note, wanted
to buy it, asking me to name my own price."
"What does that mean, I wonder?"
"It means, that this case of the robbery and the murder of the express
messenger is not the simple thing I thought. There is a crime within a
crime."
"What in the world do you mean?"
"Just this, Norcross, the banker, is mixed in the crime, and Heaven only
knows how many more men quite as prominent as he. The express-robbing
syndicate is a strong one, and hard to beat."
"But you'll beat it yet. I know you."
"Thank you for your faith and encouragement, Stella. But it's going to
be a hard pull, and it will take all of us to do it.
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