“Don’t worry, chief,” said Chick. “Ida knows how to take care of herself. If she has not wired you, it is because she means to turn up from that city this evening.”
“I hope so,” said Nick, uneasily.
Then the four went to dinner.
CHAPTER XVI.
IDA IN TROUBLE.
When Patsy set out to be present at the departure for Chicago of his two new acquaintances, Crummie and Graff, Nick and Chick accompanied him to the station, in order that they might become familiar with the appearance of Masson.
Under Edith’s recital of the tale told her by Blanche Constant of Masson’s persecutions, the latter person had assumed a new importance in Nick’s eye.
Arriving at the station, Patsy quickly espied the two East Side toughs.
They were roaming about the large room, evidently looking for some one, and not finding him.
“It begins to look,” said Patsy, “as if Masson had thrown ’em down.”
“Yet,” said Nick, “when you heard him talking to them, he seemed to be most anxious to have them get out of town, didn’t he?”