"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.