But there was nothing else to do.
Standing under a lamp-post, he opened out the newspaper.

It was bitingly cold; that, perhaps, was why his hand shook as he looked down at the big headlines.

For Bunting had been very unfair to the enterprise of the editor of his favourite evening paper.

This special edition was full of new matter--new matter concerning The Avenger.
First, in huge type right across the page, was the brief statement that The Avenger had now committed his ninth crime, and that he had chosen quite a new locality, namely, the lonely stretch of rising ground known to Londoners as Primrose Hill.
"The police," so Bunting read, "are very reserved as to the circumstances which led to the finding of the body of The Avenger's latest victim.

But we have reason to believe that they possess several really important clues, and that one of them is concerned with the half-worn rubber sole of which we are the first to reproduce an outline to-day.