"
"What do you think of it now?"
"My idea is, that the alleged forty thousand dollars was not real money
at all, and that Norcross was trying to double-cross the very men he was
standing in with."
"Still, I hardly understand."
"Well, Norcross agreed with the members of the syndicate to ship forty
thousand dollars to St. Louis, which was to be stolen en route by the
syndicate's own men. They would then have their forty thousand back, and
the forty thousand which they could make the express company pay them.
The original forty thousand would come back to Norcross, and he would
get his share of the money which the express company would pay."
"That was easy."
"It would have been, but for the fact that Norcross insisted upon being
insured for the use of his forty thousand in case anything else happened
to it. In this way he got another large sum."
"I see. But from what you have found out so far, I don't quite
understand how you figure it out."
"All I have to go by is my own way of deducing things.
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