CHAPTER III
THE SECOND MESSAGE
Two policemen approached the commissioner’s car as it stopped before Louis Glenn’s apartment house. Cardona spoke to them as he alighted.
One of the policemen pointed to a taxicab. It was the car in which Glenn had died.
“The driver found him,” said the officer. “He called the doorman. They took Glenn up into his apartment.
“They’re up there now with the doctor. Glenn was dead before they got him out of the cab.”
Two more policemen were in charge of Glenn’s apartment. They were watching the cab driver, the doorman, and Glenn’s valet. The body of Louis Glenn lay on the bed, its arms doubled, and its face distorted. A physician was making an examination.
While Fredericks spoke with the physician, Cardona began to quiz the witnesses. Weston and Biscayne watched in admiration while the businesslike detective made pointed notations.
Within a few minutes, Cardona had traced Glenn’s movements up until the time of his death. Carrying notes, the detective went to a telephone in another room, to call the Merrimac Club, where Glenn had been that evening.
He was gone for fifteen minutes. Then he called to the commissioner. Weston and Biscayne joined Cardona.