The newspapers were devoting columns to it.

The more enterprising yellow journals, whose investigations were conducted independent of the police, were hinting openly that George Collins ought to exchange places with Beard in prison.

Every new figure in the mystery, every new development, was being exploited frantically in the press.

Surely Josephine Burden was not braving the danger of unwelcome notoriety merely to deliver a message from Mrs.Collins, or Collins, or Ward.

A less conspicuous messenger would have served them equally well.No.Josephine Burden was on her way to the prison for a reason intimately associated with herself, a compelling reason, one that conquered her innate dislike for the newspaper prominence which she was braving.
At the Tombs Britz held a brief conversation with the warden, after which he was conducted to a cell at the end of a tier, behind the barred door of which Beard must receive all his visitors save his lawyer.