"Let me see. We will go to New York at once, and you shall go and get the money and then report back to me."
"No, I shall not go there to-night."
"Why not?"
The girl made no answer.
The detective again meditated; he recognized that he had a very bright and shrewd person to deal with, and he said:
"Very well, then return to your humbler home to-night, and I will call out and see you to-morrow."
"No, I will not return there."
"Why not?"
"I dare not. The attack upon me proves that I am under suspicion. Argetti's friends would not spare me."
"Do his neighbors know his character?"