"You never saw a gun like that before, eh?" he exclaimed.
Demarest admitted the fact after a curious examination.
"I'll bet you never did!" Burke cried, with satisfaction. "That
thing on the end is a Maxim silencer. There are thousands of them
in use on rifles, but they've never been able to use them on
revolvers before. This is a specially made gun," he went on
admiringly, as he took it back and slipped it into a pocket of
his coat. "That thing is absolutely noiseless. I've tried it.
Well, you see, it'll be an easy thing--easiest thing in the
world!--to trace that silencer attachment. Cassidy's working on
that end of the thing now."
For a few minutes longer, the two men discussed the details of
the crime, theorizing over the baffling event. Then, presently,
Cassidy entered the office, and made report of his investigations
concerning the pistol with the silencer attachment.
"I got the factory at Hartford on the wire," he explained, "and
they gave me Mr. Maxim himself, the inventor of the silencer. He
said this was surely a special gun, which was made for the use of
Henry Sylvester, one of the professors at Yale.
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