As for the guilty person or persons in this strange case they will be unableto escape us our nets will be spread far and wide over this great city andsuddenly i... » 

As for the guilty person or persons in this strange case they will be unableto escape us our nets will be spread far and wide over this great city andsuddenly in the streets and places of public resort we shall in some way orother be made aware that we are in touch with the unknown criminal. Indeed Ialmost fancy I see him slowly approaching this quiet square of yours he isloitering at street corners wandering apparently without aim down farreaching thoroughfares but all the while coming nearer and nearer drawn by anirresistible magnetism as ships were drawn to the Loadstone Rock in theEastern tale. «