‘Be it so, then,’ said the spokesman of the party, ‘I agree, and I’m sure I can say the same for my friends here. We all agree to it.’
The others seconded the words of their spokesman, so that Blodget found he had made a pretty good bargain with the thieves, and he set to work arranging the robbery with all the tact and all the ingenuity he could bring to bear upon such an enterprise.
When such an accomplished hand as Blodget took so much trouble, the result was all but certain.
‘Meet me, all of you,’ he said, ‘in half an hour’s time by the corner of Jackson- and Commercial-streets, and I will take you to the place. There will be no difficulty at all about it if you take care to comprehend what I wish each of you to do, and take care to do it as promptly as you possibly can.’
‘Trust us for that,’ said one. ‘We know we can depend upon you, so you have only to say what you wish and you will soon see it accomplished.’
With this understanding, then, Blodget left them to proceed to a junk store which he knew was always open, to a particular knock, at any hour of the night.
There Blodget bought a complete set of skeleton keys, besides such other little implements used in the art or profession of housebreaking, and concerning which the people of the shop asked him no questions.
Thus provided, then, he took his way to the corner fixed on, there to wait the arrival of his confederates.
He had not to wait long.
In the course of two or three minutes the four men that he had deputed there to wait him were upon the spot.