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Jim Cummings - Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery by A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton
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"How would you go at it, Doctor, if you were to make the attempt?"

The Doctor laughed quietly, as if he appreciated the joke, and leaning
back in his chair, his thumbs in the arm-holes of his vest, his feet
stretched on a chair before him, he answered:

"Well, Cummings, I don't know as I would like to do it. Swanson's a good
friend of mine, and--"

"Hang it all, man, who the devil asked you to do it?" replied Jim,
hotly. "I was only joking; do you think I wanted you to--"

"Not at all, my dear fellow, not at all," said the Doctor, in a soothing
tone. "No one supposed for a minute that you thought of such a thing,
but if I was going to do a job like that I wouldn't care to do it alone.
Two, certainly not more than three, more to help would be necessary. I
would go at it about this way: The first thing would be to find out
where Swanson kept his money. It is doubtless kept in close proximity to
this place, evidently well secreted, for Swanson is not a man to let his
right hand know what his left hand is doing. I think I would be apt to
get him full some evening, then let him win a big pot from me in poker,
and, feigning drunkenness, I would watch very keenly what he did with
the money. You may depend on it, it is somewhere in this house. After I
ascertained the hiding-place I would surprise the old fellow in his
sleep with the aid of my confederates, and gagging him, and then binding
his arms and feet, would rob his bank at my pleasure. THAT is the way I
should do it."

Cummings had followed every word, nodding his approval and manifesting
his interest in various ways, and, without noticing what he was saying,
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