It will be rather a unique experience, detective and criminal dining together, will it not?
What do you say ?" The opportunity was so novel, that I decided to embrace it.

Why should I not do so since it was a very good excuse for keeping my man in sight?
He could scarcely play me any tricks at a fashionable restaurant, and I was certainly curious to study another side of this man's complex character.

I accordingly accepted his invitation, and promised to meet him at the well-known restaurant he named that evening.
"In the meantime you will telegraph to your clients, I suppose," he said.

"You may be able to give me their reply this evening when we meet." "I shall hope to be in a position to do so," I answered, after which he bade me good-bye, and picking up his hat and stick left the room.
"Well," I said to myself when I was alone once more, "this is the most extraordinary case upon which I have ever been engaged.

My respect for Mr.Hayle's readiness of resource, to say nothing of his impudence, is increasing by leaps and bounds.