"O.K.," growled Golson.
"Say! Put somebody on the job of watching for the incoming trains from Baltimore, will you? Right away?"
"Platt's just come into the office. I'll send him to the station at once."
"What time did Delaney lose sight of Morley?"
"Twelve forty-five."
Braceway hung up the receiver and looked at his watch. It was ten minutes past one. He had fifty minutes to kill before keeping an appointment he had made with Major Ross, chief of the Washington police.
After a quick lunch, he strolled over to the news-stand and picked up the early edition of an afternoon paper.
The first headlines he saw were:
STOLEN GEMS FOUND
IN SUSPECT'S YARD
Under these lines was a dispatch from Furmville giving the information that plain-clothes men of the Furmville police force had discovered the emerald-and-diamond lavalliere worn by Mrs. Enid Fulton Withers the night she was murdered. The jewelry had been found in the yard of the house where Perry Carpenter had lived. The lavaliere was concealed in tall grass immediately beneath the window of Carpenter's room, and thus had at first escaped the eyes of the police. When found, it was intact except for the six links that had been broken from the chain and dropped the night of the murder.