“Following your instructions, Klein,” broke in Tod, “I had the police called here.”
Hardly had the words left the reporter’s lips when the chief of police himself, accompanied by two detectives, entered the room.
“What is the trouble, Mr. Lydecker?” the chief asked sharply. “Another robbery?”
Mr. Lydecker nodded. “I—I guess Mr. Klein will explain the whole painful matter to you. I am all upset.”
The chief turned to Klein, who, in a very few words, explained how he had come upon Jarge under the window just as the necklace was being dropped.
“This is the man who dropped it?” asked the chief, nodding toward Tanner.
“Yes,” said Tod eagerly.
“And it was caught outside the window by this man?” the chief went on, nodding toward Jarge.
Klein answered in the affirmative. Then he added: “Do you happen to know of a Mr. Jarge, who is at the head of a private detective association?”
“Never heard of either one of them,” was the blunt answer.