You know them
evidently."
"No, I do not. I only know they are connected with a gang and they
evidently have spotted me, as you _detectives say_."
Oscar stared in amazement.
"As we detectives say?"
"Yes."
"How do you know I am a detective?"
"I know you are a detective, and I have a still more startling
announcement to make. You have saved my life, but I have been lying
about expecting at any moment to go to your aid and save yours."
"Save mine?"
"Yes."
"Well, you do amaze me."
"I knew I would, and I will amaze you still more. We are engaged in the
same business. We are hunting down the same gang, and I believe we have
succeeded."
It is impossible to describe the sensations that ran through our hero's
mind as he said:
"You amaze me."
"I will be perfectly frank with you. I know all about you."
"Why did you not seek me?"
"I had made up my mind to do so. I was waiting for you to come from the
house you had entered when I was assailed by those two men; and now I
will tell you my story, and I trust you will believe every word I say,
for I shall tell you nothing but the truth.
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