It was to be a
game of hide-and-seek, and he felt assured that with the brave and
magical Cad Metti he could give them points on a double shadow. He stole
down the stairs, gained the street, and as he walked away he was joined
by Cad, and he said:
"Well, sis, you appeared at the right moment."
"Yes, Oscar, I feared they had some desperate game to pay. I knew your
rashness. I fell to your track and when you entered that house I sought
out some of our friends and had them at hand to drag you out of a bad
scrape."
"Sis, I was in a pretty bad scrape, and you appeared on deck at exactly
the right moment."
"That is what I intended to do, but what was their purpose?"
"Cad, to tell the truth, I don't know."
"How did they get on to you?"
"They caught me peeping on the fellow Wadleigh. There is where they
played it nice on me."
"What have you learned?"
"I have only picked up some leaders. We have a tangled skein to unravel,
and we have got to do some pretty smart work. Those men are good ones;
we are guarded at every point, and yet we have made a big stride toward
a grand close-in some day, but our chance may come in some months from
now."
"What lead have we?"
"I have the names of some of the king-pins. I have their identity; I
know the name of the great master of this lodge of criminals.
Pages:
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81