CHAPTER XXV

VANCE EXPLAINS HIS METHODS (_Thursday, June 20; 9 p.m._) That same evening, after a Turkish bath and dinner, Markham, grim and weary, and Vance, bland and debonair, and myself were sitting together in the alcove of the Stuyvesant Club’s lounge-room. We had smoked in silence for half an hour or more, when Vance, as if giving articulation to his thoughts, remarked: “And it’s stubborn, unimag’native chaps like Heath who constitute the human barrage between the criminal and society! . . . Sad, sad.…