“He probably was watching in the railway yard when the three cases were taken away by others of the gang,” Nick explained. “Bannon then flew up to Forty-eighth Street to covertly notify Floyd that the two men had got safely away with their plunder.”
“Gee! that seems reasonable.”
“Floyd then released McLauren,” added the detective. “I suspected all this when McLauren was telling his story.”
“We’d better get after Bannon, then,” Chick suggested.
“Both Bannon and Minerva Grand,” said Nick. “Both must be shadowed.”
“That’s the stuff, chief.”
“This is the girl’s afternoon and evening out, and she may have an appointment with the suspected go-between. The gang will have learned that we are on the case, of course, and may look to Minerva Grand to find out what we make of it.”
“They’ll get fat, chief, on what she can tell them,” laughed Patsy.
“You had better follow up the girl, Chick, and be governed by circumstances.”
“That will suit me, Nick, all right,” Chick said agreeably.