"To-night — and she thinks Cardona will be there."
"Hm-m-m. What do you think about it, Bert?"
"I think it's the Little Flower angle, Slade," said Rajah Brahman seriously. "We've been working it too strong. It was a great racket, because it linked up one place with another, so that the visiting suckers would feel at home.
"But Jacques was using Little Flower — and that means Cardona may have heard about it. If he's traveling the whole circuit, he's liable to strike a clue that will bring him back to New York."
"To find Rajah Brahman."
"Yes. If we could get him out of the way for a couple of weeks— even for one week — I'd have time to clean up here. Then off for the tall timber of the Himalayas. The old stuff; not a trace behind me."
"It's pretty dangerous business monkeying with Cardona," began Slade.
"Here in New York, yes," interposed Rajah Brahman. "Out in Chicago, no. You know some mobsters out there, Slade. You can fix it like you did for Dick Terry.
"The stunt is to make Cardona talk. If he knows nothing, they can let him get away. If he knows a lot — curtains for him!"
"It might have a bad come-back—"