I shall speak to them. Have notices put in the common-rooms.'
'Yes, sir.'
'And send me all the buyers from the drapery department. They must go
round and buy every silvered fox-stole in London to-night, at no matter
what price.'
'Certainly, sir.'
'And telephone to Y.Z. that I shall be down there as soon as I can about
these things.'
He touched the pile of yellow envelopes. Y.Z. was the name always given
to the detectives' private room.
'Precisely, sir.'
'That's all.'
Simon Shawn gathered that his master had a very definite clue to the
origin of the unique and fatal events of that day, and that all dark
places were about to be made light with a blinding light.
CHAPTER XV
RAVENGAR IN CAPTIVITY
'Ravengar, what a fool you are!'
The dome was in darkness. Hugo, who stood concealed near the switch,
turned on all the lights as soon as he had uttered this singular
greeting, and stepped forward. He had decided to kill Ravengar. The
desire to murder was in his heart, and in order to give all his
instincts full play he had chosen a theatrical method of welcoming his
victim into the fastness from which he was never to escape.
'D--n!' exclaimed Ravengar, evidently astounded to the uttermost to find
himself in Hugo's dome, and in the presence of Hugo.
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