"You don't care, then, if they know that you are onto them?"
"Not in the least. This is a case where I am playing in the open, and where my men are doing the secret work."
"I see four men following us," said the senator, after a moment. "Two are on this side of the street, and two are on the opposite side."
"And two more have gone around another way, while it is safe to say that there are at least two other somewhere else, ready to take up the trail or to lend a hand at any moment."
"They certainly do the thing up brown, Carter; placing eight men on our trail."
"Mustushimi realizes that he has got to get me to-night, or never."
They turned into Pennsylvania Avenue.
"They will hardly attempt it here," said the senator. "There are too many men along the avenue."
"Oh, I don't think they will attempt it at all until later in the night. They would infinitely prefer to trail us to some house, and then break into it. They are aware that one of their spies has mysteriously disappeared, and they suspect that I have somehow captured him, even if they do not know it. If they saw the fellow that Patsy hit, when he was knocked down and saw him taken away in the carriage, they have had difficulty in locating the place to which he was taken, and now they are relying upon us to take them there."
"I see. And that is precisely what you are doing."