or me and my guards. Pinkerton was the first man to call.
He, of course, was delighted to see me. While giving me credit for my
escape, he told me he did not purpose to have me leave him again, and
having permission from the authorities, he or some of his men intended
to keep me company night and day. Of course I respected him for his
honest determination to do his duty. He really was an altogether good
fellow, and showed me all possible courtesy and consideration; in fact,
on his first visit he brought me a letter from my wife, along with a box
of cigars and a bottle of wine on his own account.

One of his men, by the name of Perry, used to sleep in my little room
with me, and every morning Mr. P. would relieve him, remaining until
dinner time. We had many long talks on all sorts of subjects, and he
gave me many inside histories of famous criminal cases which he had been
engaged in. In time we became very good friends.

He also gave me full particulars of the really extraordinary way in
which he discovered my presence in the West Indies and the reason which
led him to conclude that F. A. Warren and I were one. William Pinkerton
ordered him to look up the New York end of the business and see if he
could discover the identity of Warren. He was one of the many working on
the case, but to him belongs the credit of establishing my identity,
also of locating my whereabouts and of effecting my arrest.

When ordered on the case he knew no more about me or the forgery than
what he read in the newspapers. He soon made up his mind that I was an
American, and that I was a resident either of New York or Chicago. This
because I was so young and evidently had a good knowledge of finance and
financial matters. So he determined to seek for a clue to F. A. Warren in
Wall street. He procured a list of the names of every banker and broker
in New York, and then spent some time in interviewing them, his one
question being "Now, who is he?" With their assistance he soon made out
a list of nearly twenty possible Warrens, and speedily narrowed it down
to four, my name being one of the four. He soon located my home, and
began making cautious inquiries on the spot from neighbors and others.
He discovered that I was believed to be in Europe, and had been there
before, and that when I last returned I had paid off debts and
apparently had plenty of money. He had become convinced of my identity,
but if I were Warren--where was I?

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