“Your job is a necessary one, and we may need all the dope on Green Eye’s movements that we can get,” Nick told him.
Very shortly afterward they separated, Chick remaining behind, while Nick and the millionaire reëntered the car and started back to the city.
Very little was said on the journey. To be sure, Griswold seemed willing enough to keep the conversational ball rolling, but he soon found that Nick was of a different mind. He was glad, therefore, when the detective’s house was reached, and Nick stepped out of the machine, after instructing the chauffeur to take Griswold wherever he wished to go.
“You think you can catch him, then?” the millionaire asked in parting.
Nick gave him a strange look. “If I fail in this, I’ll shut up shop,” he replied.
It was said rather lightly, but Griswold was a shrewd student of character, and knew that famous Nemesis of criminals was in deadly earnest.
CHAPTER XLI.
WAITING FOR A NIBBLE.
Nick Carter hardly knew what to do about the members of his household. They had not yet been informed of the way in which they had been taken in, and it was difficult to decide whether they should be or not. After some reflection, however, the detective decided to say nothing about it, for the present.