CHAPTER XII

FANNY WELDON TELLS THE TRUTH HE LIFTED the telephone, and presently: “Send the first two officers in the building,” he said, “and a messenger, quick!” The girl was watching interestedly. Now she saw the real Larry Holt, the man of whom it is said by the Commissioner that “he slept trailing.” At his request, she stood outside the open door whilst he conducted an investigation. The light jemmy which the intruder had used he had not troubled to take away. It lay on the floor, and he picked it up with a piece of paper …