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 For Gawd only knows when the first o' that gang 'll be bobbin' up here. And if he smelt a rat the whole bunch 'd beat it for the tall timber. All yuh gotta do is answer the door and order meals and use the phone for me. I've been up talkin' with that nice kind-eyed old Crown Attorney o' yours and makin' depositions and havin' a couple o' pow-wows with your city magistrate. So to-morrow yuh'll have to drop round and get a bunch o' papers from them for me to sign up. That's to oil the extradictin' process and have the gang held here until the Amurican authorities are ready to take 'em over."

Miss Poole sat down in a chair beside the dresser. She was too interested to be afraid.

"But I don't see how you, how any woman, can actually arrest four or five men, especially men of the kind you mention."

Sadie, as she thrust her toes into her bedroom slippers, laughed quietly.

"Why, honey child, I don't have to handle 'em. There'll be four or five cops from your city force to do the navvy work. And that strong-arm squad 'll be waitin' and ready in a room in this hotel, watchin' for me to give 'em the signal. And if