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CHAPTER I THE REBUS
AS the Megaphone once said, in its most pessimistic and wondering mood, recording rather than condemning the strangeness of the time :
" Even The Four Just Men have become a respectable institution. Not more than fifteen years ago we spoke of them as ' a criminal organisation '; rewards were offered for their arrest . . . to-day you may turn into Curzon Street and find a silver triangle affixed to the sedate door which marks their professional headquarters. . . . The hunted and reviled have become a most exclusive detective agency. . . . We can only hope that their somewhat drastic methods of other times have been considerably modified."
It is sometimes a dangerous thing to watch a possible watcher.
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