[The Midnight Passenger by Richard Henry Savage]@TWC D-Link bookThe Midnight Passenger CHAPTER XIII 9/38
He was undoubtedly killed in Brooklyn.
This woman helped to get him there! Two people must be let alone, absolutely undisturbed.
One is Lilienthal, and the other, Ferris! And you must all use a thousand precautions when we act. I'll have half the truth by to-morrow night.
My chum, Jim Condon, is hammering shoes as cobbler James Lennon opposite the room where one of the suspects lives.
And if Lilienthal or Ferris should miss either of the parties who will be arrested, they may warn the real criminal." The plainly-spoken words carried conviction to each listener. The three friends were breathlessly hanging on the officer's frank words as he now described the departure of the fated Clayton from the street corner in the carriage with a woman, and decoyed there by the boy. "Why did you hide all this ?" was Alice Worthington's astounded query. "Because the time was not ripe; because it meant the escape of the real criminal; and because I want the honor of the arrests, and the double reward.
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