BOY DETECTIVES
Two tiny boy*, who sald'thAt they w#re thirteen, and fourteen years «ld» but who looked no more thftit nine or ten, called on, M. XftViet Guiellftrol, the chief of the French detective force, at the Quai dcs Orfevres reGfefttly. "We have been reading detec tiv/ books, *nd have trained our £et»ceptioW the two said in chorus. "R«ftlly I" sfrfa' Ml.M 1 . Xavier Guichard, Who was ani'r&kl at this preamble, "and what call I % for your' "We want to be detee* UVeV' announced the elder of the boys. "We want you to give us disguises, and let us live among the Apaches aft though w&- Were Apaches oUttelves. We ato going to find but the criminal gang who assaulted the bank ca«ni«r Oaky and robbed him ih the Rue Otdencr." 'fYou are going h#me," said M. Guichatftl. And Al. Guichard proved to knew meat. The two kd» were bitterly disappointed. They had hoped to eitter the French detective force early in life and told the policeman, who took then, home that they lind been "training fof years."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1912, Page 10
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178BOY DETECTIVES Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1912, Page 10
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