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The Bat

CHAPTER ONE
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Oh, of course, we've panned the police for not getting him; that's always the game.

But, personally, I won't pan them; they've done their damnedest.
They're up against something new.

Scotland Yard wouldn't do any better--or any other bunch of cops that I know about." "But look here, Bill, you don't mean to tell me he'll keep on getting away with it indefinitely ?" The editor frowned.

"Confidentially--I don't know," he said with a chuckle: "The situation's this: for the first time the super-crook--the super-crook of fiction--the kind that never makes a mistake--has come to life--real life.

And it'll take a cleverer man than any Central Office dick I've ever met to catch him!" "Then you don't think he's just an ordinary crook with a lot of luck ?" "I do not." The editor was emphatic.


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