CHAPTER XI.
THE CRIME AND THE MEANS.
"Yes, Chick, it's as simple as two plus two, and we'll presently try to bag a part of our quarry. But first of all, I want a bit of corroborative evidence which I expect to get from that Hindoo snake charmer, Pandu Singe."
"Going there first, Nick?"
"Yes; it will not take long. Then I think we shall have the strands for a rope strong enough to hold that she-devil who murdered Mary Barton," grimly added Nick.
These remarks were made while the carriage containing the two detectives was speeding through the city streets, then bright with the light and life of the early evening.
"What a dastardly crime it was, Nick," observed Chick.
"It was the crime of a treacherous demon."
"With jealousy the chief motive, eh?"
"No doubt of it."