“I tricked him.”
The young man entered the room and inspected Brockey.
Carter loitered outside in the hall for a few minutes and then he commenced to descend the stairs. He had considerable faith in his young assistant, and he was confident that Patsy would guard the prisoner as well as he would himself.
In that respect his mind was easy.
In the lower hall he made a few changes in his disguise and then he left the house.
He went up to the Grand Central Station and commenced to inspect the cabmen.
At last he found cab No. 147.
“Hello! How are you?”
The man looked at him for a moment and then exclaimed:
“Hello! How are ye?”