"I thought it might be your Lady of Peacock Alley, for it's about the
cab matter. She says that she has something to tell me regarding a
mysterious cab on Eighteenth Street last night sometime about one
o'clock."

"There are quite too many women in this affair," Harleston commented.
"However, the Burlingame is almost directly across the street from where
I found the cab, so her story will be interesting--if it's not a plant."

"And it may be even more interesting if it is a plant," Ranleigh added.
"If you will come in a bit before three, I'll put you where you can see
and hear everything that takes place."

"I'll do it!" said Harleston.




VI

THE GREY-STONE HOUSE


Harleston returned at a quarter to three, and Ranleigh showed him into
the small room at the rear, provided with every facility for seeing what
went on and overhearing and reducing what was said in the
Superintendent's private office.

Promptly at three, Mrs. Winton was announced by appointment, and was
instantly admitted.