“Thanks.”
Kate turned quickly away and entered the elevator.
Danny decided that he had picked up all that was coming to him, and he started for home. It was nearly six o’clock when he entered the house, and found Nick in his business office with his two chief assistants, Chick Carter and Patsy Garvan.
On the office table lay the several articles Nick had obtained from Doctor Lyons, which he was just beginning to examine, already having told Chick and Patsy about the case as thus far set forth.
It took Danny only a few minutes to report what he had seen and heard, and it was very nearly in line with what Nick had expected.
“Good work, Danny, very good work,” he said approvingly. “It will help some, my lad, even more than you imagine. I have left the car at the curbing. Take charge of it, please.”
“Sure thing, Mr. Carter,” cried Danny, glad to feel that he had been of service.
“So Kate Crandall is at the Ashburton Chambers, eh?[Pg 16]” remarked Nick, with thoughtful frown, “I have wondered what became of her after that Maybrick affair. She is about as attractive a woman as one often meets, but she has an infernally evil streak in her.”
“You think she figures in this affair?” Chick inquired.
“I certainly do,” Nick declared. “Danny undoubtedly is right in thinking that the unknown man was going to the Darling residence. The fact that he has an interest there, and also in Kate Crandall, denotes plainly enough that Cyrus Darling also had an interest in the woman. The stranger, in view of his conduct, forms a connecting link between the other two, so to speak.”