How does the arrest of these two men help you ?" "Don't you see ?" Quest explained.

"These are the two thugs who set upon me up at the section house.

They killed the signalman, who could have been my alibi, and swiped my car, in which, as it cannot be found, French supposes that I returned to New York.

With their arrest the case against me collapses.

I tell you frankly, Professor," Quest continued, frowning, "I hate to leave the city without having found that girl; but I am not sure that the quickest way to set things right would not be to go down, arrest these men and bring them back here, clear myself, and then go tooth and nail for Craig." "I agree with you most heartily," the Professor declared.