Chapter 6
JIMMY waited an hour, but the man did not return. His clothes were still in his room; he had left a letter to a brother in Canada half finished, so apparently he had no intention of going away. The day passed, however, without his returning. That night Jim Sepping circulated a description of the two men to all newspapers. Every police station in the country was warned to be on the look-out for Rex. Railway termini were watched, without, however, producing anything more than a batch of rumours.
Late that night Jimmy saw Bill Dicker at Scotland Yard, and Dicker took a most serious view of the happening.
"It was only a question of time before they took other measures than blackmailing," he said. "Is Walton worth a lot of money?"
"He is nearly a millionaire," said Jimmy.
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