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pull downward on that spring discharges a thirty-two calibre,
centre fire cartridge. The most dangerous feature of it is that
the gun can be carried in an upper vest pocket as a fountain pen,
or in a trousers pocket as a penknife."
I looked with added suspicion now, if not a sort of respect, on
the young man who was tossing, half conscious, on the bed. Was he,
after all, not the simple, gullible Forbes, but a real secret
master of crime?
Garrick, keen though he had been over the discovery, was in
reality much more interested just now in the result of his
radiophone message. What would be the outcome?
I had been startled to see that almost instantly after his second
call over the radiophone there seemed to rise on all sides of us
lights and the low baying of dogs.
"What's all that?" I asked Garrick.
"Dillon had a dozen or so police dogs shipped up here quietly,"
answered Garrick, now straining his eyes and ears eagerly. "He
started them out each in charge of an officer as soon as they
arrived.
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