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THE EPISODE OF THE BERTILLON METHOD
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and elsewhere,' Charles cried out excitedly. 'Hold hard to him, Sey; by law or without it, blessed if he isn't going even now to wriggle away from us!'


A convenient policeman.

At that moment Simpson returned with a convenient policeman, whom he had happened to find loitering about near the area steps, and whom I half suspected from his furtive smile, of being a particular acquaintance of the household.