"It's a poor neighborhood."
"So much the better for their purpose, perhaps."
They entered a saloon on the corner and took up a position where they could watch the house over the window screen.
They had not been there long before Harry caught view of two familiar figures coming down the street and called his partner's attention to them.
"Here comes two of La Croix's spies!" he exclaimed.
"Yes, and they are going into the house," muttered Old King Brady.
"That clinches our doubts. He surely must live there."
"No doubt of it. It's a strange servant admitting them. She's a mulatto."
The men disappeared in the house.
An hour passed by uneventfully.