“Yes.”
“Well, the woman, if it is a woman, as Ida says, was dead right, wasn’t she, when she said it was goin’ to be tried on.”
“You mean the attempt to rob the Sanborn house of the jewels, the wedding presents?” asked Nick.
“The same,” said Patsy, eagerly. “Well, it was tried on, wasn’t it?”
“Yes.”
“Then the moll what wrote this letter knew all about it beforehand, didn’t she?”
“Yes,” replied Nick, smiling as he recognized that Patsy was slipping back into his east-side talk as he always did when he grew very earnest.
“Well, then,” continued Patsy, “it goes, doesn’t it, that she must know the people what was goin’ to work it?”
“Yes,” replied Nick, eagerly, for he saw Patsy was getting to a point.
“And,” went on Patsy, “the moll has given you the warning that there was a woman behind Ellison’s runnin’ away?”