or on the inside. Keyhole it if you wish, because
this sounds mighty funny to me."

And a minute later when the deputy sheriff was invited to enter he found
the superintendent alone, and the listening Jimmy heard, "What can I do
for you?"

"The office has been told that there's a chap named Gollop around the
works here--chap who looks like Judge Granger. You know what he's
wanted for. Got a warrant for his arrest"

"All I know is that he ought to be arrested if he looks like the Judge,"
growled Holmes, and then, "No, can't say that there's any such a man
here. You might look through the works. But--who told you there was such
a man here?"

"We got the tip from your man Wiggins."

"Oh! Wiggins, eh? Wait a minute."

Jim heard a buzzer and then the voice of a clerk, "Yes, sir."

"Send Wiggins in to me immediately," ordered the superintendent. There
was an interval of silence and then further conversation.

"Oh, Wiggins. Have you seen that man Gollop around lately? If so where
is he now?"

"Why--why--I thought he was--thought he came this way, sir," stammered
Wiggins with an embarassment that was palpable to the listening Jimmy.

"You thought? Mr. Wiggins, I'm afraid that some day thinking too much
will be the death of you! What time does Mr. Gollop show up in the
morning?"

"He's usually here when I come, sir," replied the perturbed and
conscience-stricken Wiggins.

"Well, to-morrow morning when he comes send him in to me, but--Wiggins!
Don't say a word what I want him for. You can go now."

A door banged, and Jimmy heard the superintendent's voice assume a
highly confidential tone.

"That makes it easy, if he's the man you're after. I doubt that,
however. This chap is near-sighted and wears blue glasses. But here's
what I'll do. When Mr. Gollop comes to-morrow I'll keep him here in my
office and will telephone you, then you can come out at once and see if
he's the culprit. Will that do?"

"Certainly the very best way to do it," said the deputy sheriff, and
then Jimmy heard him depart with apologies and thanks for a cigar that
Holmes had evidently given him.

Immediately afterward the door opened and the superintendent growled,
"Now you see how evil companionship contaminates a man! You've got me
into this infernal mixup of yours; but--hang it all!--I can't see a good
man get the worst of it on account of that egotistical, swell-headed
Granger. And--besides, I've had a letter from the old man himself