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CHAPTER XXVII. BROUGHT TO BAY.
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Phil Stark1 made an effort to get away, but the officer was too quick for him. In a trice he was handcuffed.
“I have already explained,” said the manufacturer, quietly.
“You are quite on the wrong tack,” continued Stark, brazenly4. “Mr. Gibbon was just informing me that the safe had been opened and robbed. It is the first I knew of it.”
Julius Gibbon seemed quite prostrated5 by his arrest. He felt it necessary to say something, and followed the lead of his companion.
“You will bear me witness, Mr. Jennings,” he said, “that I was the first to inform you of the robbery. If I had really committed the burglary, I should have taken care to escape during the night.”
“I should be glad to believe in your innocence,” rejoined the manufacturer, “but I know more about this matter than you suppose.”
“I won’t answer for Mr. Gibbon,” said Stark, who cared nothing for his confederate, if he could contrive6 to effect his own escape. “Of course he had opportunities, as bookkeeper, which an outsider could not have.”
Gibbon eyed his companion in crime distrustfully. He saw that Stark was intending to throw him over.
“I am entirely7 willing to have my room at the hotel searched,” continued Stark, gathering8 confidence. “If you find any traces of the stolen property there, you are welcome to make the most of them. I have no doubt Mr. Gibbon will make you the same offer in regard to his house.”
Gibbon saw at once the trap which had been so craftily9 prepared for him. He knew that any search of his
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