Indeed, when he spoke it was with something almost like an air of relief.
"Come," he said, "now we're down to brass tacks at last on this proposition.

Mr.Detective, name your real price." Cleggett did not answer immediately.

He appeared to consider his real price.

But in reality he was thinking that there was no longer any doubt of the origin of the explosion.

Since Loge practically acknowledged the counterfeit money, the man who had died with this piece of it in his hand must have been one of Loge's men.