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LIKE a trailing shadow went Lew Daney's car behind the van. In a few seconds both had passed out of sight, and Tim recovered from the amazement which had momentarily paralysed him.
A cab was passing; he called it, and they drove to the nearest police office. Only a subordinate official was in charge, and he apparently had had no warning about the van; but whilst Tim was explaining the chief of the detectives came in, and in a few words Tim told him what he had seen.