on the desk top.

"Yes, sir," owned up the Jew. "There's nobody there but just us two. And
I don't know how Captain Meagher comes to find the picture is gone and
that it was me took it--but it's true, commissioner. She goes away
kissing it and holding it to the breast of her clothes--that Rogues'
Gallery picture! Yes, sir; I gives it to her."

The third deputy commissioner's gold-banded right arm was shoved out,
with all the lean fingers upon the hand at the far end of it widely
extended. He spoke, and something in his throat--a hard lump
perhaps--husked his brogue and made his r's roll out like dice.

"Lieutenant Weil," he said, "I congratulate you! You're guilty!"

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