He was pent force waiting to be translated into action.
He drove first to the Milbrey house, on the chance that she might be at home. Jarvis answered his ring.
"Miss Milbrey is with Mrs. Van Geist, sir."
Jarvis spoke regretfully. Pie had reasons of his own for believing that the severance of the Milbrey relationship with Mr. Bines had been nothing short of calamitous.
He rang Mrs. Van Geist's bell, five minutes later.
"The ladies haven't come back, sir. I don't know where they might be. Perhaps at the Valners', in Fifty-second Street, sir."
He rang the Valners' bell.
"Mrs. Van Geist and Miss Milbrey? They left at least half an hour ago, sir."
"Go down the avenue slowly, driver!"
At Fortieth Street he looked down to the middle of the block.