The motive was the securing of her inheritance.
The Tough Trio were his hired tools.
It was a horrible thing to think of. The young girl decoyed by the note of appointment to the Fifteenth street rendezvous on that fearful stormy night in winter. The fearful murder and the burning of the tenement.
The work of fiends.
Such it was.
But the trio were capable of even worse crimes than this. The detectives were assured of this.
For over an hour the conference between Blood and the Tough Trio went on.
Then they arose and left the place.
It was now after dark.
Blood shook hands with each and left them. The detectives caught only one sentence uttered by Blood: