[The Late Mrs. Null by Frank Richard Stockton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Late Mrs. Null CHAPTER XVII 4/19
He can stay at home in comfort with his wife, settle up his accounts, and do what he likes, and the day before he is to be swooped down on, he gets notice from us, and comfortably goes to Chicago, or Jacksonville, where he can take his ease until we post him of the next move of the enemy.
If he wants to take extra precautions, and writes a letter to anybody in the place where he lives, dated from London or Hong Kong, and sends that letter under cover to us, we'll see that it is mailed from the place it is dated from, and that it gets into the hands of the detectives.
There have been cases where a gentleman has had six months or a year of perfect comfort, by the detectives being thrown off by a letter like this.
That is only one of the ways in which we help and protect persons in difficulties who, if it wasn't for us, would be dragged off, hand-cuffed, from the bosom of their families; and who, even if they never got convicted, would have to pay a lot of money to get out of the scrape.
Now, I have put myself a good deal out of the way, sir, to come to you, and offer you our assistance." "Me!" exclaimed Croft.
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