Still, I shall be glad if you will put me up to some of these tricks, for I may be able to some day save a victim of card sharpers, as you have done this evening." The next morning, when those who had been present at the scene of the previous evening arrived at the office of the detectives in Bow Street, they were shown into some private rooms, and asked to wait.

Cotter, Mark, and his two friends first had an interview with the chief.
"You will understand," the latter said, "that this is an altogether informal affair.

I propose you first tell me your story as briefly as possible." This was done.
"Now, Mr.Cotter.I take it that you do not wish to prosecute ?" "Certainly not.

I would, in fact, give anything rather than appear in it." "You have said that, in addition to the IOUs that you have given to the two men caught cheating, they hold others to the amount of some five or six thousand pounds, given by you to three other frequenters of the club.

In fact, these papers have been found in Emerson's pocketbook; he told you, I believe, that he had taken them up, so that you should not be inconvenienced by them.