So he directed Chick to go out and post himself so that he could shadow Nick and see whether he was followed. And, having respect for the skill of this Brown Robin, he sent Patsy out charged with the duty of following Chick, and Ida later to follow Patsy.
Thus it was that when, an hour later, he went out into the street, his passage to the Zetler Bank was in the nature of a procession.
Nick’s passage, however, was not direct, for he received a signal from Chick that the latter thought a person was on the track of his chief.
Consequently he took a devious route, turning into many strange places, doubling on his track and doing a number of strange things.
All this time he paid not the slightest attention as to whether or not another person was doing these strange things, for he was relying upon Chick to determine whether any one was on his track.
“Gee!” said Patsy, when, in these doubling turns, he came upon Ida, “what is this game we’re getting this morning?”
However, Chick had seen a young man about twenty-five or six, who had made his appearance only as Nick had shown on the street, and whose route was the same as that of the chief.
When Nick had taken to his devious ways on hearing a peculiar huckster’s cry behind him, which he knew to be from Chick, this young man had taken to the same devious ways.
When Nick started straight for the bank, this young man had followed, and Chick saw him walk to the very door of the Zetler Bank to watch Nick enter.
Summoning Patsy by signal, he sent him on the trail of this young man, while he awaited the appearance of Nick from the bank.