It seemed to me that the police had got this city in the hollow of their hands, and that there was no chance at all for the man who couldn't rely on the law to do him justice.

I soon found out my mistake.

There's nothing I could get done in New York or Chicago which I couldn't get done here, and at a great deal less cost and trouble.

You thought I was joking when I told you at my office that I could find you a murderer.

I wasn't.