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He was in a hurry and had a large parcel in his possession.
Without hesitation, Bag seized him by the arm and stopped
him. The man drew a knife, but Bag quickly took it from
him. The man tried to escape, but Bag held him in the grip
of his powerful hands. All the while, the struggle had been
fought in silence, for the man did not want to arouse public
attention.
Bag
turned his prisoner around and marched him back through
the gate into the city and to the head office of the police.
The chief of police was there surrounded by his officers
when Bag came in with his captive. When they saw the man,
all the officers exclaimed as one man: “Kim Keyhole!”
It transpired that this was the name of the man Bag
had caught. The criminal was well known to the police not
only as a thief and ruthless murderer but also as someone
with the uncanny capacity to escape and disappear even from
locked rooms. Hence, his full nickname was Kim Keyhole Creeper.
Bag deposited the knife and the parcel on the police
chief’s desk. The parcel contained money, golden art objects,
and precious stones, the man’s last catch. Kim Keyhole was
safely locked up in a police cell, and Bag received the
reward for finding the most wanted man on the police list
of suspects. Soon the entire city had heard of this spectacular
arrest, and Bag became famous overnight.
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On
the road outside the city gate, the noble Bag and
the despicable murderer struggle in silence until
Bag supressess his prisoner.
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But in every town there is more than one criminal.
The following night the lovely dead lady came back to Bag’s
bedside and told him how to make his next arrest. This time,
he would have to catch two young men at the same moment.
Again, everything happened exactly as the ghost had predicted.
Two young men were running along the road where Bag, standing
where the lady had indicated, was waiting for them. He caught
them both, and when one escaped he threw the other at him,
so they both fell and were badly hurt on the stones. They
did not try to escape again, and when Bag marched them into
the police department, the astonished officers cried out,
“The Torture Twins!”
Apparently, the two young men used to go break into
isolated houses, where they beat old people to death and
robbed them of their goods.
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