Perhaps you did not know that we have our own little rogues'
gallery in most of the big department-stores. But there didn't
happen to be anything there that he recognised. So I took him down
to Police Headquarters. Through plate after plate of pictures
among the shoplifters in the regular Rogues' Gallery the clerk
went. At last he came to one picture that caused him to stop.
'That is one of the women I saw in the store that day,' he said.
'I'm sure of it.'"
Donnelly produced a copy of the Bertillon picture.
"What?" exclaimed Bentley, as he glanced at it and then at the
name and history on the back. "Annie Grayson? Why, she is known as
the queen of shoplifters. She has operated from Christie's in
London to the little curio-shops of San Francisco. She has worked
under a dozen aliases and has the art of alibi down to perfection.
Oh, I've heard of her many times before. I wonder if she really is
the person we're looking for. They say that Annie Grayson has
forgotten more about shoplifting than the others will ever know.
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