Chapters 16-20 Summary

Wearing a wig and carrying false identification papers as Ellen Branch, Tracy does as directed by Conrad Morgan and drives to the Long Island home of Lois Bellamy for the burglary. She follows his maps and instructions, avoiding all the alarm systems until inside the house. As she opens the safe, an alarm goes off and soon the Sea Cliff police arrive. Tracy convinces them she is a house guest of Lois Bellamy and has mistakenly triggered the alarm. The police turn the alarm off, apologize, and leave. Tracy then pockets the diamonds and drives back to Manhattan where she boards an Amtrak train for St. Louis. She locks her compartment door and inventories the haul: three diamond rings, a sapphire bracelet, an emerald pin, two necklaces and three pairs of earrings.

A knock on the door reveals two men in...