He had infinite patience, the heart of a lion and the strength of a gorilla.

Had he been highly educated, as a detective he would have been a fizzle; his mind would have been concerned with variant lofty thoughts, and the sordid would have repelled him: and all crimes are painted on a background of sordidness.

In one thing Haggerty stood among his peers and topped many of them; in his long record there was not one instance of his arresting an innocent man.
So Haggerty had his failures; there are geniuses on both sides of the law; and the pariah-dog is always just a bit quicker mentally than the thoroughbred hound who hunts him; indeed, to save his hide he has to be.
Nearly every great fact is like a well-balanced kite; it has for its tail a whimsy.

Haggerty, on a certain day, received twenty-five hundred dollars from the Hindu prince and five hundred more from the hotel management.

The detective bore up under the strain with stoic complacency.