Chapter 21
CLYDE ELGIN’S address, gotten at leisure from the phone book McCloud had thoughtfully provided himself with, turned out to be a bungalow, not an apartment. McCloud was rather glad of this, because he fully intended to give Elgin quite an argument, and in the daytime there were apt to be interruptions in an apartment. Sitting well back in the cab he instructed Herman to drive on past, and go around the block a couple of times, a preliminary scouting maneuver. He did not believe that Elgin himself was implicated in the kidnapping of Sheila. On the other hand, he was quite sure that Elgin could tell him who was. He looked at the house as they went by it the second time. There was a thin plume of smoke rising from the chimney, but the Venetian blinds at the windows were all shut ti
