Old King Brady let her go then.
He immediately summoned Alice, who had retired to her own office before Mrs. Butler was shown in, and told her what he had done.
"You want to get down to the rooms and take this woman in charge," he said. "Pump her dry. We want to find out what she is driving at if we can. You are to make up as you did before, but not quite so much like a China woman."
At the time of which we write, the Bradys were holding two rooms under rental on the top floor of a building on Pell street.
It was almost a necessity, for they had a great many Chinese cases to handle.
Alice assented.
A little later Old King Brady and Harry went to Chinatown again, and with the aid of the wardman made a thorough search for Ed.
But it came to nothing.
The same ground was gone over again; other secret dens were visited on the block.
But it is always hard work in Chinatown without a clew.