CHAPTER XIX

IN FLASH FRED’S FLAT AFTER the discovery in the pawnbroker’s shop Larry went back to the police station to make yet another discovery. Flash Fred was not in his lodgings. “I wish you would come down and see his flat, sir,” said the officer who had gone to make the arrest. “I think that something queer has happened.” “If there has been anything in this case which has not been queer,” said Larry with asperity, “I should like to hear about it!” Flash Fred lived in Modley House, Jermyn Street, a block of service flats,…