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A Cast of the Net.

THE STORY OF A DETECTIVE OFFICER.

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Any one who feels the slightest cur- josity as to the date of my story, can tell pretty nearly when its events occurred, by various incidents men- tioned in it, and which the public know quite as much about as I do; but I do not feel inclined, for certain reasons of my own, to identify the precise date, or to name the exact spot at which I was employed in the business. _

{t was a case for the police—for the detective police—and 1 was the detec- tive employed. Now you must under- stand that I was not, at this time, regarded as a regular detective ; I was a sergeant in what we will call the « A” division, and I did ordinary duty ; but though I was not yet on the re- gular detective staff, somehow or another I was very often taken from my usual work, and pat on all sorts of ‘obs, sometimes fifty or a hundred miles in the country; and I was once paid a very high compliment by the chief magistrate—of course I mean at Bow Street. He said:

“Nickham, you’re not a regular de- tective, are you?”

“No, your Worship,” I said, “1 am not.”

“Well, Nickham, you're worth a dozen of them: and I have made a special note of your conduct, and shall send it on to the Commissioner.”

The Commissioner was old Sir Rich ard Mayne then. And that’s how I got to be a sergeant; but it was only bacause I was lucky in two or three eases which the chief magistrate hap- pened to notice.

Well, I was one night at the section- house, for I wasn’t on duty. (1 don’t mean the station-house; the section- house is a place where our men lodge, perhaps fifteen or twenty together, or more); and J was sitting in a large room by myself; for it was a fine even- ing, and none of the men cared much about chess, or draughts, or things of that sort.

I was reading the when the door opened, and one of our

eople looked in. It was Inspector

affery, and I was very much surprised to see hrm there, as our place was quite out of his district. Seeing I was by my- self, he said “Oh,” in a tone which showed that he was pleased at it, and, turning to some one outside, he said :

“Come in, Sir, the party is here by himself.’’

With this, a tall stout, gray-whisker- ed gentleman came in.

Inspector Maffery closed the door af- ter him, and not only did that, but shot the bolt, and then, coming to me at the table, says :

“ Nickham, this is Mr Byrle, the cele- brated engineer that you have heard 7”

Of course I had heard of him; in fact, 1 once had a cousin who worked in his factory. So I bowed, and made a civil remark.

Then Inspector Matfery went on to say,—

“This, Mr. Byrle, is Sergeant Nick- ham, one of our most active men, as | have told you, and who, [ think, is just the man for you. This place is very safe, and, as I have bolted the door, and the men below know I am here there will be no interruption, and you can say anything you wish to Nickham as woll here as anywhere.”

So they sat down; and, with a very polite speech, for he was really a gen- tleman, Mr. Byrle told me what he wanted.

He made a long story of it; I shall not; but the public have really no idea of putting ficts well together, and pre- senting them without any excresences, if Iam say so. However, I listened patiently, and found out what was re- quired.

Jt seemed that his factory had been robbed on several nights, in spite of an extra watchman being put on; and only the complete and most expensive engine-fittings were taken, showing that the thief, whoever he was, knew what

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The robberies ‘were mortifying, be- cause they proved, as all such things do, that the firm was employing a thief, and trusting some one who was deceiv- ing them. The loss of these fittings often delay other work seriously ; and above all, it was considered that it de- moralized all the factory, (where best part of a thousand hands wert employ- ed,) by showing that the firm could be robbed with impunity. So, although it was hardly thejsort of business which a first-rate man was required tu work, and, though I say it myself, and though spite and envy in certain quarters kept me off the regular staff, there was not

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