"Tell me first, Mr. Durgan, what you made out, and what you think this telegram has to do with it?"
"To be plain, I suspect that this man knows who was guilty of the crime for which you were tried, that he is now in communication with him, and I saw an address in the telegram he had received."
"What was the address?"
"'Corner of Beard and 84th Street,' and it was signed 'B. D.'" He told her its contents.
She went into the house and brought out a New York directory a year or two old. "I guess there isn't any such corner," she said, and in a moment she showed him there was not.
"Do you know of anyone who has these initials?"
"I do not."
"If Alden sent a detective to the office where it was received, I wonder if he could find out who sent it?"
"Is it likely that if anyone took the trouble to give a wrong address, they would leave any clew to their whereabouts?"
"Could 'Dolphus give Alden any information of moment?"