CHAPTER VI.
AN AUDACIOUS VISITOR.
After he had removed his disguise, Nick said to his two aids:
“The Cary case will give us little trouble after this. I shall probably continue to play his part in it, but it will amount to little more than shelling out some money. She thinks she has captured him.
“She is a wonderfully clever woman, and is using the Cary incident merely as a cover to the big strike on Mountain.
“Now, Chick, tell me what you found in Seventeenth Street?”
“That the house was empty; that it had been occupied but two or three days; that the rent had been paid for a month; but possession has not been given up.”
“Do you know who rented it?”
“A woman who gave the name of Mrs. Stanton.”
“Hum! I fancy that she has rented another house this evening, the one in Thirtieth Street. In my way of thinking, that house is to be the scene of the strike on Mountain.
“That is a job for you, Patsy,” continued Nick. “Watch that house from early to-morrow morning and settle who goes in and all about it. Nothing will be done there to-night.