I
told him the danger. He accepted it. Once he was careless--and one
is not careless twice in that work. But he was fortunate, too. I,
also, was fortunate in that the task was then so far advanced that I
could complete it alone. I got him to the hospital at night; no
matter how. For his danger and illness I have indemnified him in
the sum of ten thousand dollars. Is it enough?"
Professor Gehren bowed.
"And you, Mr. Jones; are you a detective?"
"No; merely a follower of strange trails--by taste."
"Ah. You have set yourself to a dark one. You wish to know how
Telfik Bey"--his eyes narrowed and glinted--"came to his reward.
Will you enter, gentlemen?"
"I know this much," replied Average Jones as, followed by his
friends, he passed through the door which their host held open.
"With young Craig as an assistant, you prepared, in the loneliest
part of the Hackensack Meadows, some kind of poison which, I
believe, can be made with safety only in the open air."
The foreigner smiled and shook his head.
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