First came several calls from people with bills and she put them
off most adroitly.
Then we heard a call that caused Kennedy to look at me quickly,
stop the machine and start at that point over again.
"That's what I wanted," he said as we listened in:
"Give me 4494 Greenwich."
"Hello."
"Hello, Chief. This is Flirty. Have you done anything yet in the
little matter we talked about?
"Say--be careful of names--over the wire."
"You know--what I mean."
"Yes, the trick will be pulled off at three o'clock.
"Good! Good-bye and thank you!"
"Good-bye."
Kennedy stopped the machine and I looked at him blankly.
"She called Greenwich 4494 and was told that the trick would be
pulled off at three o'clock today," he ruminated.
"What trick?" I asked.
He shook his head. "I don't know. That is what we must find out. I
hadn't expected a tip like that. What I wanted was to find out how
to get at the Clutching Hand."
He paused and considered a minute, then moved to the telephone.
"There's only one thing to do and that's to follow out my original
scheme," he said energetically. "Information, please."
"Where is Greenwich 4494?" he asked a moment later.
The minutes passed. "Thank you," he cried, writing down on a pad
an address over on the west side near the river front. Then
turning to me he explained, "Walter, we've got him at last!"
Craig rose and put on his hat and coat, thrusting a pair of opera
glasses into his pocket, in case we should want to observe the
place at a distance.
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