CHAPTER XVII.
The Detective .-- His Experience, and His Practice .-- A Plan of Detection Perfected .-- The Work is Begun.

177 CHAPTER XVIII.
A Detective Reminiscence .-- An Operation in Bridgeport in 1866 .-- The Adams Express Robbery .-- A Half Million of Dollars Stolen .-- Capture of the Thieves .-- One of the Principals Turns State's Evidence .-- Conviction and Punishment 185 CHAPTER XIX.
The Jail at Bridgeport .-- An Important Arrest .-- Bucholz Finds a Friend .-- A Suspicious Character who Watches and Listens .-- Bucholz Relates his Story 205 CHAPTER XX.
Bucholz Passes a Sleepless Night .-- An Important Discovery .-- The Finding of the Watch of the Murdered Man .-- Edward Sommers Consoles the Distressed Prisoner 218 CHAPTER XXI.
A Romantic Theory Dissipated .-- The Fair Clara Becomes communicative .-- An Interview with the Bar Keeper of the "Crescent Hotel" 226 CHAPTER XXII.
Sommers Suggests a Doubt of Bucholz's Innocence .-- He Employs Bucholz's Counsel to Effect his Release .-- A Visit from the State's Attorney .-- A Difficulty, and an Estrangement 233 CHAPTER XXIII.
The Reconciliation .-- Bucholz makes an Important Revelation .-- Sommers Obtains his Liberty and Leaves the Jail 244 CHAPTER XXIV.
Sommers Returns to Bridgeport .-- An Interview with Mr.
Bollman .-- Sommers Allays the Suspicions of Bucholz's Attorney, and Engages Him as his Own Counsel 252 CHAPTER XXV.
Sommers' Visit to South Norwalk .-- He Makes the Acquaintance of Sadie Waring .-- A Successful Ruse .-- Bucholz Confides to his Friend the Hiding Place of the Murdered Man's Money 260 CHAPTER XXVI.
Edward Sommers as "The Detective."-- A Visit to the Barn, and Part of the Money Recovered .-- The Detective makes Advances to the Counsel for the Prisoner .-- A Further Confidence of an Important Nature 270 CHAPTER XXVII.
A Midnight Visit to the Barn .-- The Detective Wields a Shovel to Some Advantage .-- Fifty Thousand Dollars Found in the Earth .-- A Good Night's Work 284 CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Detective Manufactures Evidence for the Defense .-- An Anonymous Letter .-- An Important Interview .-- The Detective Triumphs Over the Attorney 295 CHAPTER XXIX.
Bucholz Grows Skeptical and Doubtful .-- A fruitless Search .-- The Murderer Involuntarily Reveals Himself 309 THE JUDGMENT..