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department, investigates, with his gang masquerading as policemen; it is all part of his scheme to try to steal the library's most valuable books. However, Myra gets to the books first and hides them. She also tells McByrne that the police detective is Fleg. Fleg thinks that McByrne has the books and has a henchmen try to beat the information out of him, but once again McByrne gets away. McByrne figures out that he was supposed to go to the balcony where
Cleaver was knifed, but Cleaver had intercepted the note, supposedly from Myra, asking him to meet her there. Fleg recaptures McByrne, but an air raid drill and the ensuing blackout enable him to escape again, temporarily. Caught yet again, he manages to deceive an air raid warden into turning the library's lights back on. This draws other air raid wardens and genuine policemen to the library; they arrest Fleg and his men. Fleg, who has several times stated he
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