"
"It's perfectly ridiculous but characteristically English," drawled
one young man, standing beside Mollie Gretna, "to send out a bally
red-headed policeman in preposterous glad-rags to look for a clever
criminal. Kerry is well known to all the crooks, and nobody could
mistake him. Damn silly--damn silly!"
As "damn silly" Kerry's open scrutiny of the members and visitors
must have appeared to others, but it was a deliberate policy very
popular with the Chief Inspector, and termed by him "beating."
Possessed of an undisguisable personality, Kerry had found a way of
employing his natural physical peculiarities to his professional
advantage. Where other investigators worked in the dark, secretly, Red
Kerry sought the limelight--at the right time. That every hour lost in
getting on the track of the mysterious Kazmah was a point gained by
the equally mysterious man from Whitehall he felt assured, and
although the elaborate but hidden mechanism of New Scotland Yard was
at work seeking out the patrons of the Bond Street drug-shop, Kerry
was indisposed to await the result.
He had been in the night club only about ten minutes, but during those
ten minutes fully a dozen people had more or less hurriedly departed.
Because of the arrangements already made by Sergeant Coombes, the
addresses of many of these departing visitors would be in Kerry's
possession ere the night was much older.
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