"Professor Kennedy?" he asked at length, balancing the pasteboard
between his fingers.
"Yes," answered Craig. "What can I do for you?"
"I am from Shorham, the Fifth Avenue jeweller, you know," he began
brusquely, as he handed the card to Kennedy. "I thought I'd drop
in to consult you about a peculiar thing that happened at the
store recently, but if you are engaged, I can wait. You see, we
had on exhibition a very handsome pearl dogcollar, and a few days
ago two women came to--"
"Say," interrupted Kennedy, glancing from the card to the face of
Joseph Bentley, and then at Donnelly. "What is this--a gathering
of the clans? There seems to be an epidemic of shoplifting. How
much were you stung for?"
"About twenty thousand altogether," replied Bentley with rueful
frankness. "Why? Has some one else been victimised, too?"
XIII
THE KLEPTOMANIAC
Quickly Kennedy outlined, with Donnelly's permission, the story we
had just heard. The two store detectives saw the humour of the
situation, as well as the seriousness of it, and fell to comparing
notes.
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