The feebleness he showed while leaving the shop was in marked contrast, however, to the vigor with which he took down the telephone-receiver in the booth of the neighboring drug-store. But she was not there to see; nor anyone else who had the least interest in his movements. He could, therefore, give all the emphasis he desired to the demand he made upon Headquarters for a close watch to be set on the adjoining dry-goods shop, for the purpose of intercepting and obtaining the address of a certain package, on the point of being expressed from there to some place up the river.
Then he went home; for by now he was fully as tired as his years demanded.
XXI
PERPLEXED
"Elvira Brown."
"Elvira Brown? That the name on the package?"
"Yes."
"And the address?"
The name of a small town in the Catskills was given him.