"
"Good!" rapped Kerry. "Now we're coming to it. She told you to come to
me?"
"Oh, no!" cried Mollie--"she didn't. She told me to tell her so that
she could tell the Home office."
"Eh?" said Kerry, "eh?" He bent forward, staring fiercely. "Please
tell me exactly what Miss Halley wanted to know."
The intensity of his gaze Mollie found very perturbing, but:
"She wanted me to tell her where Mrs. Sin lived," she replied.
Kerry experienced a quickening of the pulse. In the failure of the
C.I.D. to trace the abode of the notorious Mrs. Sin he had suspected
double-dealing. He counted it unbelievable that a figure so
conspicuous in certain circles could evade official quest even for
forty-eight hours. K Division's explanation, too, that there were no
less than eighty Chinamen resident in and about Limehouse whose names
either began or ended with Sin, he looked upon as a paltry evasion.
That very morning he had awakened from a species of nightmare wherein
719 had affected the arrest of Kazmah and Mrs. Sin and had rescued
Mrs. Irvin from the clutches of the former. Now--here was hope. 719
would seem to be as hopelessly in the dark as everybody else.
"You refused?" he rapped.
"Of course I did, Inspector," said Mollie, with a timid, tender
glance.
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