Austin Bellamy's sole heir was his stepbrother, Harold Sharrock, who is now living in Paris. Bellamy's estate was valued at approximately three million dollars.
On the margin beside the pasted paragraph, the hand marked this notation:
Send Vincent
There was a long, silent pause, while invisible eyes from the dark scanned the other references concerning Doctor Savette. The fingers picked up a small envelope that had come within the large one, and drew forth a dozen small clippings that told of different crimes. These were spread across the table. The left hand, with its gleaming gem, moved across them and poised above a single clipping. With uncanny precision, it picked that solitary item from the rest.
The clipping was a brief paragraph that told of the finding of a young man's body on a vacant lot in the Bronx. The hand placed the clipping upon the typed report.
Now another envelope came into view. From it the hands extracted a folded clipping.
That item would have interested Rutledge Mann, for it concerned the strange disappearance of Professor Pierre Rachaud. Mann had supplied the clipping to The Shadow, but had received no further orders concerning the case. With great precision, the hands set the Rachaud clipping in the center of the table. Below it, they placed the newspaper account of Clark Murdock's death. A space remained below. It was unfilled. There was significance in that blank area of polished table surface. It indicated that something was to follow.
The laugh of The Shadow was a whispered tone as the long right hand placed the tip of the pencil upon a sheet of blank paper. It wrote these words in column form, pausing momentarily between each one:
Money. Television. Atomic Energy. Aeronautics. Money.
After the word at the top of the column, the hand of The Shadow inscribed the name Bellamy. Next on the list came Rachaud. Third was Murdock. The two final words received no names. The list and the clippings were pushed aside. Once more the hand ran over the report on Doctor Savette. It found the statement: