cept it wass for Max Schimmel perhaps he would not haf been caught at all."
He would not say more than this, though Hereford pressed him.
"No, my friendt; I must say to you, as I said today to the bolice, 'Do not ask guestions of me—I am not a bolice officer andt shmart like a bolice officer; I am only a naturalist!' The bolice were pleased by my saying that, for the bolice are all dunderheads. Yes; all are dunderheads; and of all the dunderhead bolice the worst dunderhead iss McAdams. Very early I saw why you had picked out McAdams to infestigate the case; it wass because at that time you did not want the case infestigated. Am I not right?"
"Yes," Hereford nodded.
"McAdams iss writing a book, and the name of the book iss 'My Great Cases.'
