For that sort of work I should say that other Gaffney's remarkably well cut outhe's a typical, sharp, knowing Cockney, with all his wits about him, and plenty of assurance.

All rightI'll speak to Gaffney, when I go back.

"I'll fix it with Gaffney to-night.

" He went back to the Waldorf, summoned Gaffney to his private room, and sent him to arrange matters with his brother.

Gaffney accepted the commission with alacrity; his brother, he said, was just then out of a job, having lost a clerkship through the sudden bankruptcy of his employers; such a bit of business as that which Mr. Appleyard had entrusted to him was so much meat and drink to one of his tastesin more ways than one.

"It's the sort of thing he likes, sir," remarked Gaffney, confidentially.

he said to himself with a cynical laugh when Gaffney had left himaye, plenty, and to spare.

Besides, they both knowor Mr. Gaffney

" Fullaway made no reply, and Allerdyke left him, went downstairs and sought Gaffney, whom, having found, he led outside to the street.

"Twenty minutesin a cab, sir," replied Gaffney.

But we'll soon repair that if you've sent for young Gaffney.

Gaffney, the chauffeur, was to go at once and get himself a room at an inn in close proximity to the Pompadour Hotel, so that he would be at Appleyard's disposal at any hour of the coming evening and night.

First, if Albert Gaffney witnesses any meeting between Rayner and Miss Slade, and, in that case, if he can tell us where they go and what they do.

"You know that district well, don't you?" "Tell you the very spot, sir," answered Gaffney promptly.

By that time, he said, he should know if Mr. Rayner and Miss Slade had returned to the Pompadour; by that time, too, Albert Gaffney would be in a position to report his own doings and progress.

"That Albert Gaffney's a smart chaphe'll not lose sight of Rayner once he begins to track him.

Appleyard had already ascertained that neither Rayner nor Miss Slade had returned to the Pompadour; Gaffney, the chauffeur, who had been keeping an eye on the exterior of that establishment, had nothing to tell.

"I'll give you it in proper order, sir," replied Albert Gaffney.

It's a most unfortunate thing that Albert Gaffney was stopped from following that cab, last nightI've no opinion, Mr. Allerdyke, of your amateur detective as a rule, but from Mr. Appleyard's account of him, this one seems to have done very well.

"Albert Gaffney's at the warehouse now," he announced.

"Perhaps Albert Gaffney doesn't know its value.

Then I heerd Tom Gaffney recitin' Robert Emmett's last speech, on St. Patrick's day, at Eagle Hall, an' I near cried at the end; an' I don't cry easy.

(In the Gaffney ledger, Jan. 24, 1935) © 24Jan35; A5-64423.

He is St. John Gaffney, former American Consul-General to Munich.

Such men as Gaffney are greatly to blame for many German delusions.