'Certainly, sir.'
'And telephone to Y.Z. that I shall be down there as soon as I can about these things.'
He touched the pile of yellow envelopes. Y.Z. was the name always given to the detectives' private room.
'Precisely, sir.'
'That's all.'
Simon Shawn gathered that his master had a very definite clue to the origin of the unique and fatal events of that day, and that all dark places were about to be made light with a blinding light.
CHAPTER XV
RAVENGAR IN CAPTIVITY
'Ravengar, what a fool you are!'