The first thing Nick saw, on entering the place, was the open door of the private room.
Parks stood there pointing out.
Behind him were Gilmore and Geary.
“There comes Nixon now,” Nick heard Parks say, “and we may as well see what he has to say.”
Nick seated himself at a table and ordered a chop, and Nixon went back to the private room.
In a moment the two men who had left Nixon at the cigar store entered the place and sat down at the rear table.
The waiter seemed to know them, for he went back and opened a conversation with them.
Nick could not hear what they were saying, for the distance was too great, but he could now and then catch a word.
The men were talking of highway robbery and burglary.
In a few moments Nixon joined the two men, and then the waiter went away.