"I'll talk if I can see my husband—if I know that he is really dead," Ethel then said.
But she talked before that, told all she knew, and gave up the papers.
The briefest kind of an examination was all that was needed to confirm the Bradys' Chinese clew.
Old Fen Wix had told the truth.
Ethel also told about the two Chinamen whom she had seen lurking outside the cottage.
The case seemed plain.
Ed had got the tin case, presumably containing the defaulting pension agent's treasure, and these two Chinks had got Ed.
"This throws our case back into Chinatown," observed Old King Brady. "But we must clean up here first."
They took Mrs. Pow to the pier.
Here there was another scene.