Chapters IV and V Summary

When the narrator returned to the Tootsall Building, Blue was nowhere to be found. The narrator took some time trying to grasp the significance of it. Stevens was gone and the new superintendent asked Blue to leave, thinking Blue would upset people. The narrator could not find him and or Stevens after some searching. Stevens apparently was a bomb-maker and had tried to explode the Mansard Bank vault, but he was caught by the bank watchman. Stevens had invented nitroglycerin and said that he was only testing the material and was going to sell it to the feds. The watchman let him go and he has not been heard from since.

Blue, however, came upon the narrator in his ebony limousine on the way to his black cross in his room on Beacon Hill.

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