The Bat

You've got to get him boys - get him or bust! said a tired police chief pounding a heavy fist on a table. The detectives he bellowed the words at looked at the floor. They had done their best and failed. Failure meant resignation for the police chief return to the hated work of pounding the pavements for them - they knew it and knowing it could summon no gesture of bravado to answer their chief's. Gunmen thugs hi-jackers loft-robbers murderers they could get them all in time - but they could not get the man he wanted. Get him - to hell with expense - I'll give you carte blanche - but get him! said a haggard millionaire in the sedate inner offices of the best private detective firm in the country. The man on the other side of the desk man hunter extraordinary old servant of Government and State sleuthhound without a peer threw up his hands in a gesture of odd hopelessness. It isn't the money Mr. De Courcy - I'd give every cent I've made to get the man you want - but I can't promise you results - for the first time in my life. The conversation was ended.