"It's all right now," he said. "You can come out. They were looking for you. Your escape has been discovered. They thought you might have come this way, but I fooled 'em. They will trouble us no more. Now is our time to get out of this."
Just who Tom Quee was or how he came to be there in the secret room Ed never learned.
The Chinaman seemed to know the ropes, however.
He provided Ed with clothes and led him through many winding passages, up stairs and down, until at last they came out up in Pell street.
Tom Quee now led the way to the Bowery.
They went up the Bowery, and stopping in at a restaurant the Chinaman put up for a good meal, which Ed was glad enough to get.
As they ate they talked and it was decided to go at once to the Bronx and start their work, which they did.
Ed now resigned himself entirely to the guidance of the Chinaman.
He had little idea where they went. The ride in the subway seemed interminable, and a long ride by trolley car followed.
At last they came to the water front, where there were docks and factories.