"So we thought, but I think that jewel robbery that the Gowbridge people are busy with now is Danny."
"I thought banks were his line."
"Yes, but he has a new 'jane. He probably wants money."
"I see. Do you know his number?"
Barber did.
An hour later, Danny, who was performing a leisurely and painstaking toilet in the room in Amber Street, was informed that Inspector Grant would be very much obliged if he would have a short talk with him at the Yard.
Danny's pale grey, wary eyes surveyed the plain-clothes man who had brought the message. "If he thinks he has anything on one," he said, "he has another guess coming."
The plain-clothes man did not think that the inspector wanted anything but some information from him.
"Oh? And what is the inspector inspecting at the moment?"
But that the plain-clothes man either did not know or would not tell.