Waiving the question whether they might not be able to get
Violet Winslow in such a situation where even the old hypodermic
method which you know would serve as well as any other, why,
Marshall, just the hint that fellow dropped tells me that he could
walk up to her on the street or anywhere else, and--"
He did not finish the sentence, but left it to my imagination. It
was my turn, now, to remain silent.
"You are right, though, Tom, in one respect," he resumed a moment
later. "It is not easy by the old methods that everyone now knows.
For instance, take the use of chloral-knock-out drops, you know.
That is crude, too. Hypodermics and knock-out drops may answer
well enough, perhaps, for the criminals whose victims are found in
cafes and dives of a low order. But for the operations of an
aristocratic criminal of to-day--and our friend the Chief seems to
belong to the aristocracy of the underworld--far more subtle
methods are required. Let me show you something."
Carefully, from the back of a drawer in the cabinet, where it was
concealed in a false partition, he pulled out a little case.
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