"It was only the other day I was reading a long article in one of the London newspapers about you, praising you for tracking the criminals in the Treasury Bonds case.

The police were not mentioned." "Fame--or notoriety--sometimes comes to those who seek it least," replied the detective genially.

"I assure you that article came unasked.
I'm a stranger to the political art of keeping sweet with the journalists--it was a statesman, you know, who summed up gratitude as a lively sense of favours to come.

Now, in this case, let us play fair, actuated by the one desire to see that justice is done.

This case does not strike me as quite such a simple affair as it seems to you.