“Here’s a dollar for your trouble.”

“Thanks.”

Carter pocketed the money.

“I can depend on you?” Darwin asked uneasily.

“You can,” the detective replied, and he hardly was able to repress a smile.

“Good night.”

Darwin hurried away.

Carter did not budge from the corner.

That he had formed some new plan in his mind was evident, or he would have made a move to keep on the trail of his quarry.

“He said the woman’s name was Peters—Lena Peters,” the detective muttered, a few minutes after Darwin had disappeared around the corner. “She has seen him a number of times. Can she be any relation to the man who died in Bellevue Hospital? If she is——”