“I guess this is where I need some information,” he said.
“Well, then, Patsy, I’ll make you as wise as myself,” said Nick Carter.
He then told Patsy in brief the story he had learned from Mrs. Ladew.
At its conclusion Patsy exclaimed:
“I see it all! The thing that is coming in a covered carriage to that place at ten to-night is his nibs, the Englishman.”
“That’s what it is,” said Nick.
“And they’re going to stow him in that back building. That’s the game.”
“I think you’re right.”
“Well, it’s a nasty place. It’s a nasty place to bring a woman, and it won’t be an easy thing to get that fellow out of it.”
“Easy or not,” said Nick, calmly, “we have got to go through it. I guess we’ve been in worse places and come out whole.”