Chapter 15
IT WAS NO TIME for evasions, for keeping matters in the dark. By to-morrow morning, unless the Commissioner of Police had located the missing financiers, the whole city, the whole country, the whole world, would know of the kidnappings— if, in parenthesis, kidnappings they were. William Sinsabaugh was a business man, a big business man. If he were in some fashion connected with what ITerkomer had begun to term, to himself, the Great Plot, then any information that the Commissioner could give him would be no surprise. And if he were innocent of any complicity, he would, being a man of affairs, know enough to be silent.
Sinsabaugh spoke first.
"This officer here"— and he pointed to Kelcey—"has placed me under arrest. He refuses to state why. May I beg that you will explain to m
