All attempts to draw her out on that subject were in vain.
All Alice could do was to ask her address, which she gave, and to tell her to call next day.
It was a certain street and number in Brooklyn.
As for Ed, she never mentioned his name.
"She's a bad one," observed Harry after she had gone. "I take no stock in that woman."
Alice took none either.
"I am going around to Mrs. Fang's to see if she has any word for me," she said, referring to the wife of the Chinese detective. "I'll see you at the office if there is anything to report."
But there was nothing, and that day closed, leaving the case involved in mystery.
Next day Old King Brady had Alice write a Chinese advertisement offering $200 reward for any information which would lead to the discovery of Ed Butler's whereabouts.
This Harry posted on the dead wall at the corner of Pell and Doyer streets, where hundreds of little red slips can be seen any day.