The name came to Cardona's mind, as he stared unseeingly toward the sweeping landscape. He remembered the name of the woman in Anita Marie's seance room. Maude Garwood!
The Shadow's message took on another import — different from Cardona's interpretation. This must be the death to which The Shadow referred.
A glance at the newspaper article showed Cardona that Garwood had died at nine o'clock, while only he and the servants were in the house.
That was the hour when Cardona had been at Anita Marie's seance. There, The Shadow had laughed his departing challenge. Had he sensed the tragedy that had occurred at Garwood's?
The train was slowing its speed as it crossed the high bridge over the Delaware at Trenton. It was due to stop at the New Jersey capital.
Cardona picked up his hat and his suitcase, and signaled to the porter that he intended to get off at that stop, forty-five minutes from Philadelphia.
The detective waited half an hour for an express from New York. He arrived back in Philadelphia exactly two hours after he had left.
He went immediately to the local detective headquarters, announced his identity, and stated that he would like to visit the scene of Geoffrey Garwood's death.
Cardona's request was received with some surprise. He was informed that the investigation of Garwood's death had proved that it must have been a matter of accident; that complete data had been furnished regarding Geoffrey Garwood's recent actions, and there was absolutely no reason why the wealthy man could have contemplated suicide.
Suicide! Cardona was searching for murder!