"He's like all the rest of the niggers.

He doesn't know what he saw--No sir! I've had enough of this ha'nt business; it's one thing when he spirits chickens from the oven, it's another when he takes to spiriting securities from the safe.

I shall telegraph to Washington for a first class detective." "If you take my advice," said Rad, "you'll not do that.

A detective's not much good outside the covers of a book.

He'll stir up a lot of notoriety and present a bill; and you'll be no wiser than you were before." "Whoever stole those bonds will be marketing them within a few days; the interest falls due the first of May.