"
Garrick was kneeling by the prostrate form now, not so much the
accuser as the scientist, studying a new phase of crime.
The threatened paralysis had struck Inspector Herman sooner than
even Garrick had expected.
When we had made Herman as comfortable as we could, Garrick added
to Dillon, who stood over us, speechless, "You had under you one
of the strong links in the secret system of police protection of
vice and crime, and you never knew it--the greatest grafter and
scientific gunman that I ever knew. It has been a long, hard
fight. But I have the goods on him at last."
The exposure was startling in the extreme. Herman had gained for
himself the reputation of being one of the shrewdest and most
efficient men in the department. But he had felt the lure of
graft. With the aid of the gamblers and unscrupulous politicians
he had built up a huge, secret machine for collection of the
profits from the sale of police protection against the enforcement
of the law he was sworn to uphold.
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