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`` H 'm ! '' exclaimed Craig . `` Well , it will not be so hard for us to unravel this matter , after all , when we get back to the city . We must make that noon train , Walter . There is nothing more for us to do here . '' Emerging from the `` Tube '' at Ninth Street , Craig hustled me into a taxicab , and in almost no time we were at police headquarters . Fortunately , Inspector Barney O'Connor was in and in an amiable mood , too , for Kennedy had been careful that the Central Office received a large share of credit for the Kerr Parker case .