As they stepped out, Nick said to Chick:
“They have not found their men here and are going to try somewhere else.”
CHAPTER X.
IN CLOSE PURSUIT.
It was some time before Patsy’s patience in waiting in the saloon he knew to be the hang-out of Spike Thomas was rewarded.
But at length Spike and Bally Morris made their appearance, and on seeing Patsy went over to him, and said:
“I say, cull,” was Spike’s greeting, “get out of here with us to another joint, where we can patter a bit.”
Without knowing why they wanted to go to another place, nevertheless he got up willingly and followed them out into the street.
Spike led them to a place in Bond Street, not far from the Bowery, and evidently one which he knew only from the outside.
“Yer see, cull,” he said, “I don’t know much about dis place, but it’s quiet, and there’ll be no mix-up wid de rounders and de culls.”