Edgar Wallace

“ Alwin cannot help us to recognize the men, and as we don't know exactly what they're going to do or what particular act we've to frustrate, why, the task is hopeless.”
Nevertheless, it was the Pennsylvania Station which produced the most important clew in this most intricate and difficult case. Peter himself was on watch the following afternoon, sitting hunched up on a bench in such a position that he could look over and see the people who came in a never-ending stream from the arcade. It was such a stream of humanity as ordinarily interested him more than anything else. ”

“ It is probable they imagine you know more than you do.” He turned to the other. “Well, Peter, did you see Mendelsheim's books?”
Peter nodded. “The story is clearing up,” he said, “but the devil of it is that the more I go into the matter, the more Miss Bertram is implicated. You remember the Higgins Tenement Murder, when the wife of Laste, the gambler, was shot?”
They nodded.
“You remember that Laste said his wife had found these thousand-dollar bills in a bock which was bought by Mrs. Laste at Mendelsheim's stores on the afternoon of the night the store was burgled. ”

“ I believe we are watched.”
She shook hands with him, and was turning to go, when she said:
“If I want you, Mr. Correlly, I will telephone. I have your number. It is on the card.” She smiled. “You remember the card you asked me to return?”
Without another word she went, and Peter followed her at a leisurely pace. He came out on to Fifth Avenue in time to see the back of the car disappearing, and made his way back to his office. ”