"If you do, why don't you enlighten us ?" "Because I can't be positive until I have more evidence," answered Britz, unmoved by the other's irritation.

"However, I believe that before many days we shall have solved the entire case." The conversation was interrupted at this juncture by the telephone bell.
Britz lifted the receiver to his ear, made several replies in monosyllables, then returned the receiver to the hook.
"That was Watson up at Delmore Park," he informed the chief.

"Says Josephine Burden is on her way to the Tombs to visit Beard." "Josephine Burden!" echoed Manning in undisguised surprise.

"The cotton king's daughter! Why, she's engaged to Lester Ward." "She may be a messenger for Mrs.Collins, Ward's sister," suggested Greig.
"Whatever her mission, I'll soon know all about it," asserted Britz.
"I'm going to the Tombs." On the way to the big, gray City Prison, the detective tried vainly to account for Josephine Burden's appearance in the case.

That only the most urgent reason would bring her to the Tombs at this critical stage of the case, was self-evident.