That statement was sufficient; for it was quite logical to suppose that Zayata had destroyed the telltale molds after he had used them.
Larkin also confessed to planting the evidence of the torn bit of cloth to complete the Blefken crime.
Clinton Glendenning was freed. He went back to his old home. That very day, his niece reappeared, to rejoin him.
Margaret Glendenning was never questioned regarding her absence. Larkin, from whom all statements had been pumped as answers to questions, omitted from his testimony the fact that he had conducted the girl to Henri Zayata.
It was all excellent news copy for Clyde Burke. With other journalists, he extolled Detective Joe Cardona as a hero. The ace took credit for wiping out the members of the insidious crime cult. All agreed that he had dealt death that was deserved.
In all the columns that were typed, no mention appeared of a mysterious man in black, whose laugh spread terror, and whose might was the unseen bludgeon that had beaten down the forces of the archfiend.
No one except those who had worked with him knew that The Shadow had actually accomplished that mighty deed.
No one else — not even Joe Cardona — had seen the hand of The Shadow and remained alive to tell!