CHAPTER 2So closely did Mr. Wallace Waddington dog Mr. Clackworthy’s footsteps after that first meeting in the Blackmere Hotel lobby that the master confidence man had a difficult time of it to get away even long enough to perfect his plans. It was only through the expedient of large and frequent raids upon his private stock that he was able to get any time to himself. He had discovered that Mr. Waddington had both a great weakness and a great capacity for the forbidden liquid, but after some twenty-five or thirty generous “two fingers” would lapse into long and sonorous slumber. It was during these periods that Mr. Clackworthy perfected his scheme.
Well aware of the tendency of the genus homo toward exaggeration, the master confidence man had taken the precaution of ascertaining the trut
