Chapter 16
TWO AUTOMOBILES, crowded with plain-clothes men, stood at Sixth Avenue and Fiftieth Street. Two others, similarly crowded, stood at Fifth Avenue and the same street. Four others debouched a score of officers within a few doors of where Herkomer's automobile had stopped.
Kelcey, the secret-service man, Lieutenant Dan McGaw and a plain-clothes man followed Herkomer up the steps of the Clarkson Private Hospital. A glance down the street, just before he rang the hell, showed to Herkomer the slim figure of a woman expostulating with one of the officers guarding the approach. Doubtless Mrs. Willy Sinsabaugh, anxious to be in at the death! For the electric light under which she stood showed her to be most expensively apparelled.
Mrs. Willy was game to the point of recklessness. Herk
