[The Midnight Passenger by Richard Henry Savage]@TWC D-Link bookThe Midnight Passenger CHAPTER XII 14/33
"Now, Dennis, my boy," he said, as he stuffed his pipe.
"One bit of hurry, and ye are ruined! I have two birds to watch.
And I know her perch, their meetingplace, and the boy's own den!" He now saw airy castles of Spain gaily rising in the smoke wreaths around him. "To-morrow," he said, "I will prospect, and I think I'll borrow Mrs.Haggerty's boy, Dan, to hunt for a tailor in that building. He is sharp and he can knock at the door by mistake, so I'll get her general description. "If the janitor is a fair man to jolly, Dan must then find out his pet saloon, and I'll make a new friend on the East Side. "But I must disappear, after I have met this boy Einstein at the station.
I'll have to slip on a false mustache for ten minutes. Jim Condon can bring him out to me in the dark.
He can tell him I don't care to run up against the sergeant." On Central Park West there was a circle of astonished listeners, when Doctor William Atwater had closed the conference by reporting his inability to trace a single enemy of the murdered man.
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