Patsy went away, saying:
“What next? I’ve run him down to this place, and know he figures as Harold Stanton.”
He went back to the American District Telegraph office and persuaded the man in charge to give him the names of the persons to whom Stanton had written letters.
One was Nick Carter, the other was Alpheus Cary.
Patsy gave a long whistle, and set out to find his chief.
CHAPTER IV.
THE REAL THING.
After Nick had talked over the case with Chick and Ida, he had sent Chick to the house in Seventeenth Street to take stock of it and to make inquiries.
“Chick,” he had said, “I don’t think you will learn much, for I fancy the house has been abandoned by these people. However, you may learn something in looking it up.”
He then went to his house, to find a caller awaiting him. Nick looked at the card, but did not recognize the name. It was Richard F. Mountain.
He sent for the caller to come to his own room.