Chapter 27
INTO the complicated situation had come yet another complication. What had Rex Walton to do with the little burglar? He remembered now that Knowles had once told him that he had met Rex, and that Rex had been kind to him. But what possible service could Nippy render to this master of a million?
He drove, via the Blackwall Tunnel, to Tidal Basin, and there he found the search party waiting for him. Carsholt Street, unlike its slummy neighbours, was a thoroughfare of houses which are favoured by the decent artisan class, and at this hour of the morning was deserted, every window blind being drawn. They had not been assembled long before one of the doors opened, and a man came out, walking toward where Jimmy was standing. He was an early-morning workman, and he shot a suspicious
