"You pick out your clothes as soon as breakfast is over and we'll run down to New York soon.

You'll like that.
It's a lot more like a city than any place outside Chicago." He was really planning to slip out and away.

He would see what these detectives would do--what move his employers at Chicago would make--then he would slip away--down to New York, where it was easy to hide.

He knew enough about that city to know that its mysteries and possibilities of mystification were infinite.
The more he thought, however, the more wretched his situation became.

He saw that getting here did not exactly clear up the ground.