Chapter 15: When the Light Failed

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌‌⁠The city lights were springing up block after block along Pennsylvania Avenue as Detective Ferguson left that busy thoroughfare and hurried to the Saratoga. He stepped inside the lobby of the apartment house a full minute before his appointment with its manager, and went at once to look him up. Before he could carry out his purpose he was joined by Harry Kent.

“Finley had to go out,” the latter exp