The gentleman who lived in this place had been visited one evening by a mulatto.
"A mulatto—a negro?" he said, when the girl told him that such a person wished to see him. "What does he want?"
"I don't know, sir. He jist showed me a bit of paper wid 'I want to see the master of the house' on it."
"Take him into the library."
As the reader will readily suppose, the mulatto was Shadow.
It will be remembered that Woglom and his pal were connected with the sugar-house gang.
Woglom was "down on his luck" so badly as to have been obliged to dispose of his burglarious implements. He had visited Cap to be supplied with some tools.
Cap demanded to know what Woglom was going to do with them, and what were the chances of his success, before lending him what he wanted—for a good round consideration.
Thus, while in concealment in the passage under the junk pile, Shadow had learned the particulars of this "job."
"You wished to see me?" said the master of the house, as he entered the library, where Shadow had been shown.