A big shot in the offing? Strangely enough, the police did not find a clew to the name of Crix. They learned nothing regarding the double identity which Roberts Faraday had played. The body of the big shot of crime had lain before them; they had not realized it.
Weeks went by, and the strange mystery of gang war at the Faraday home was still a perplexity. But its aftermath occurred far away, in a foreign land.
At Lausanne, Aristide Ponjeau, the man of high ideals, who had planned the World Court of Industry, received from Victor Venturi the sum of nearly twenty million dollars. The contributions to the noble cause had been gathered from willing donors.
No crime had spoiled the course of these negotiations. With the death of Roberts Faraday, murder had been ended. Freed from the schemes of Crix, the great work was ready for its consummation.
Crix, the master crook! Plotter and murderer, he had planned a mad career of crime for wealth — a merciless rule of massacre and evil that had been ended by The Shadow!