Apparently, however, the discovery of one detectaphone
had been enough to disarm further suspicion, and the garage keeper
had not thought it necessary to examine the telephone wires to see
whether they had been tampered with in any way. The wire which he
had thought led to the warehouse had seemed quite sufficient to
explain everything.
In the room which we had used so much, we found the other
detectaphone working splendidly. Garrick picked it up.
By the sound, evidently, someone in the garage was overhauling a
car. It may have been that they were fixing one up so that its
rightful owner would never recognize it, or they may have been
getting ready to take one out. There was no way of determining.
We could hear one of the workmen helping about the car, a man whom
we had listened to when the instrument first introduced us to the
place. The second machine, connected with the telephone, did not
transmit quite as clearly as the broken detective device had done,
but it served and, besides, we could both hear through this and
could confirm anything that might be indistinct to either of us
alone.
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