In due course he "connected up" (as they say) with Fisher.

Now, it is one thing to follow a man who has no idea that he is being followed and another to trail a man who is as suspicious and elusive as a fox.

A professional criminal's daily business is to observe whether or not he is being followed, and he rarely if ever, makes a direct move.

If he wants a drink at the saloon across the street, he will, by preference, go out the back door, walk around the block and dodge in the side entrance under the tail of an ice wagon.

In this case the detectives followed the presenter for days before they reached Fisher, and when they did they had still to locate his "plant." The arrest in this case illustrates forcibly the chief characteristic of successful criminals--egotism.