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Rh Hotel Tonty, was very great; but when, to avoid that chance, you rented rooms in two different hotels, the expedient you adopted was so stupidly planned that you ought to have been arrested almost within an hour. A little study of the facts, a few hours of watching at this hotel, a single cablegram to Java, will still, at any time, put the police in possession of all the facts with which I have just startled you."

"No doubt."

"Lund, who has been as perplexed as myself at your still staying in Chicago, has stood ready for almost thirty-six hours to warn you if the police showed signs of connecting you with the theft. Last night Lund was arrested. Since the police are certain to trace his whereabouts for the last few days, his arrest will inevitably lead them to you.