CHAPTER VI

VANCE OFFERS AN OPINION (_Saturday, June 15; 2 p.m._) We sat for a while smoking in silence, Vance gazing lazily out into Madison Square, Markham frowning deeply at the faded oil portrait of old Peter Stuyvesant that hung over the fireplace. Presently Vance turned and contemplated the District Attorney with a faintly sardonic smile. “I say, Markham,” he drawled; “it has always been a source of amazement to me how easily you investigators of crime are misled by what you call clues. You find a fo…