So you offered your services, and your more acute brain put them up to a dodge they would never have thought of.

It was necessary for your purpose that you should figure as a respectable man, so you had cards printed in the name of Anatole Labergerie, and addressed letters to yourself under that same name at Morris Siegelman's restaurant.

I do not know yet where you obtained the car, but I shall know to-morrow--the fact is immaterial now.

What is of real importance is the method whereby you humbugged the janitor at Mr.Hunter's office by pretending that you had been sent there by Mr.Labergerie because the car was at liberty somewhat earlier than was expected, and the unfortunate journalist took it as a compliment, drove to his rooms, changed his clothes, and returned to the office, thus playing into your hands, because the car sent to his order by Mr.Labergerie was thereby prevented from picking him up at the appointed time.

It was shrewd of you to guess that a busy man on the staff of a newspaper would be glad to utilize an automobile placed unexpectedly at his disposal, and fate played into your hands by the delay in issuing the duplicate marriage license, which he had promised de Courtois to obtain from the City Hall." "Sir, I knew nothing of any marriage license." "Probably not.