"Thank you," said Stein. "You will have that other full report sent over?"
"It's on its way now."
"Thank you again. You had better follow it with a copy of the Forbes report. If that bears out all you say, I shall instruct my client to go ahead."
"He'll be safe if he does, Judge."
"Very well. Good-afternoon," said Stein.
He called Miss Weston again.
"Miss Weston," he said, "please get me City Chamberlain Kilgour, and, while I am speaking to him, call up the East County National and ask where you can find president Osserman. He will have left the bank, but I should like to reach him before I go home to-day."
Miss Weston obeyed with her usual readiness to serve this one of her employers.
§3. Police Lieutenant Donovan had not listened to half a dozen of Quirk's words before he rose quickly and closed the door of his private room. His was one of those voices that cannot whisper, but it descended now to a hoarse muttering.
"How much is there in this for me?" he demanded.