"
"No, no; I never would have brought that fellow here if we had had any
evidence in the house, although I did not think for one moment that he
would do us up the way he did."
"He has our identities."
"He has."
"That is his advantage, but where does ours come in?"
"We have his identity."
"He will change."
"So will we, but I will know that fellow under any cover. He will not
know us unless we have forgotten how to do it."
"It is easy for us to change."
"You bet; he fell to us in our best role."
"He did."
"But how did he get on to us at all?"
"I must have time to think that out, and mark my words: he is a
shadower. He got his points down well. I am a shadower; I will be on his
track, and the next time I will have my points down well. Whatever
happens, that fellow must be put away."
"He is a terror."
"He is, but he had it all his own way this time. We were groping in the
dark, but he had a good flashlight on us."
"He did."
"Boys, we have had our ups and downs before. We have been in bad holes,
but we always managed to get out. We have had better men than this young
fellow on our track, and we have always got the best of them in the end.
Remember, we have for years baffled the best officers in the United
States. We have no reason to be discouraged.
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