"Go ahead--commit suicide--I'll send you a 'Gates Ajar' and a card, 'Here lies a damn fool who would have been a great detective if he hadn't been so pig-headed.' Go ahead!" Anderson rose.

"Thank you, sir," he said in a deep voice.

His eyes had light in them now.

"I can't thank you enough, sir." "Don't try," grumbled the chief.

"If I weren't as much of a damn fool as you are I wouldn't let you do it.