Minute Mysteries [Detectograms] Chapter 15: Part 15

Sees Through It_ When Hawkins said, ‘it’s twenty minutes after six’ and ‘it’s a quarter to eleven,’ Fordney knew he was not a railroad man. No railroad worker _ever_ speaks of the time in any other manner than, ‘it’s six-twenty’ and ‘it’s ten-forty-five.’ _Ask the next conductor!_ There is nothing more nearly permanent in human life than a well-established custom. Joseph Anderson. 71. _The Kidnapers’ Cleverness_ The express package contained a carrier pigeon. A bird of the air shall carry, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. Ecclesiastes. Transcriber’s Notes --Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication. --Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged. --In the text versions, delimited italicized text by _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's Minute Mysteries, by Harold Austin Ripley