“Get both disguises and bring them to the house. First, however, you are to take this cigarette and go to Cruse & Cupell’s. Find Mr. Cupell and confer with him privately. Tell him who you are and that you want him to smoke the cigarette and assay it, just as he did the other.”
“I see.”
“Have him make a rush job of it.”
“Sure.”
“Then find out if Gillman has come back to work this morning.
“Anything else?”
“That’s all.”
Chick boarded a Sixth Avenue car and started for Twenty-third Street.
Nick went to the address given him by John Lansing.
It was an obscure boarding house over on the other side of Broadway.