They were going to break into a house.
This much was truth.
But, as I understood them, the house was in the suburbs—somewhere in the neighborhood of Fort Washington, I took it.
It was because I believed that vicinity contained the intended scene of robbery, that I so readily consented to accompany them.
I would probably be left outside to keep guard, and would take advantage of the circumstance to call the police, and be on hand to bag them when they came out with their plunder.
It was not until after we had got started that I was undeceived.
I then learned that the "suburbs," as they meant it, was in New Jersey, on the line of the Central Railroad.
A train left near midnight.
This was the train we were to take, to reach which we were compelled to somewhat hasten our pace.
I was puzzled to know what to do.