CHAPTER XXIV

A MYSTERIOUS TRIP (_Sunday, December 5_) The Boston Symphony Orchestra was scheduled that afternoon to play a Bach Concerto and Beethoven’s C-Minor Symphony; and Vance, on leaving the District Attorney’s office, rode direct to Carnegie Hall. He sat through the concert in a state of relaxed receptivity, and afterward insisted on walking the two miles back to his quarters—an almost unheard-of thing for him. Shortly after dinner Vance bade me good night and, donning his slippers and house-robe…