It was said he was cranking the engine and that it
kicked back and splintered the bone in his forearm. Anyhow, he went
about with his hand and arm in a sling."
"And then?"
"They gave my man the slip that night in their fast touring-car.
You know automobiles have about made shadowing impossible in these
days. The house was closed up, and it was said by the neighbours
that Williams and Mrs. Williams - as they called themselves - had
gone to visit a specialist in Philadelphia. Still, as they had a
year's lease on the house, I detailed a man to watch it more or less
all the time. They went to Philadelphia all right; some of the
bills turned up there. But we saw nothing of them.
"A short time ago, word came to me that the house was open again.
It wasn't two hours later that the telephone rang like mad. A
Fifth Avenue jeweller had just sold a rope of pearls to an
Englishwoman who paid for it herself in crisp new one-hundred-dollar
bills. The bank had returned them to him that very afternoon
- counterfeits. I didn't lose any time making a second arrest up
at the house of mystery at Riverwood. I had the county authorities
hold them - and, now, O'Connor, tell the rest of it. You took the
finger-prints up there.
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