Achmed Abdullah

“ He pointed at the voluminous reports.
“Thanks!” the police commissioner said dryly.
“But,” Ogilvie continued unabashed, “it takes a man like myself to use the information they contain, through a thing called applied psychology.”
“And which,” interjected the police commissioner, “might with equal truth be styled applied poetry.” ”

“ All the reports, according to the police commissioner's system, were in writing, and Detective Sergeant Miller's was explicit:
Martyn Spencer left last night for an unknown destination. I don't know yet whether by train, boat, or automobile. I questioned some of his employees, the help of the Hotel Stentorian, where he has taken a suite by the year, rent paid in advance, his valet, and the elevator starter in his office building. They are all new people whom he has hired since his return to New York, a few months back. ”

“ He died!”
“That's one way of putting it,” said the police commissioner, and added that he had met O'Neale coming up the Avenue on his way home, and that the latter, in the meantime, had made further investigations about Doctor Hillyer McGrath.
“Did he find out anything interesting?” asked Ogilvie.
“No. He called on the doctor—under some professional pretext, sore throat or something like that—and found him at home. He tells me the doctor lives in an extremely modest little apartment and seems to be a poor man.
“Funny!” commented Ogilvie. ”

“ Detectives Campbell and Wimpflinger had been sent to investigate the hunchback, as well as the five men whom Ogilvie had particularly noticed at No. 17 and with whom he had had the fight.
It was pithy and succinct, and read as follows:
1. Montross D. Clapperton. Studied in Boston, Paris, and Freiburg. Forty-three years of age. Excellent reputation. Quiet, kindly, charitable. Engineer by profession. Inventor of the Clapperton automatic cream separator and the Clapperton self-adjusting tube wrench. Lives alone, in a modest two-room flat, without servants. 2. ”

“ Chemist by profession. Was instrumental in separating and clas#fying a new metal, called rhizopodin, which may eventually revolutionize and cheapen the entire manufacture of electric globes. 3. Leopold Fischer. Studied at Berlin and Vienna, his native town. Thirty-nine years of age. Engineer by profession. Well liked by his neighbors, though he went into bankruptcy last year. Inventor of the Fischer piston pump, the Fischer water gauge, and said to be at work now on a new gyroscope. ”