What could be actuating her woman's mind in this was more than he could tell. But—why not take her to that house as well as to any in New York?
"All right," he said. "It's a very nice place. I'll tell you the story as we go."
CHAPTER XXIII
THE ENEMY'S TRACKS
On the way returning to Gotham, Garrison learned every fact concerning John Hardy, his former places of residence, his former friends, his ways of life and habits that he deemed important to the issues and requirements now in hand, with Dorothy's stepbrother more than half suspected of the crime.
Dorothy gladly supplied the information. She had been on the verge of despair, harboring her fear and despair all alone, with the loyal desire to protect not only Foster, but Alice as well, and now she felt an immense relief to have a man's clear-headed aid.
Garrison held out no specific hope.
The case looked black for young Durgin at the best, and the fellow had run away. A trip to the small Connecticut town of Rockdale, where Hardy had once resided, and to which it had long been his wont to return as often as once a month, seemed to Garrison imperative at this juncture.
He meant to see Tuttle at six, and start for the country in the evening.
He outlined his plan to Dorothy, acquainting her with the fact that he had captured Theodore's spy, from whom he hoped for news.