"Looks like it," growled Dan. "But I don't see how the devil you did
it."

"Very easily done. He gave himself up."

"What's that?" shouted Dan as he almost bounded from his chair.

"He gave himself up, I said," repeated Mr. Pinkerton.

"Jim Cummings gave himself up," said Dan slowly as if trying to grasp
the idea.

"Exactly. He saw we had him and that he couldn't get away, so to make
his sentence as light as possible he did the best thing he could do and
surrendered."

Almost dumbfounded by this surprise Dan sat speechless and stared
blankly at the detective.

"Do you know, Mr. Moriarity," Mr. Pinkerton continued, "you strike me as
being remarkably clever."

Arousing himself Dan answered in a savage tone:

"What are you driving at now?"

"I mean that up to the time that Cummings surrendered himself we thought
he was the principal man in the case, the prime mover and director of
the whole affair, but now we find we are mistaken. That is why I say you
are clever. You simply used him as a cat's paw, and played hide and seek