CHAPTER II.THE WAY OF THE ROBIN.
Nick’s passage to the Zetler Bank to see the real Mr. Alpheus Cary was in the nature of a procession.
He had been impressed with the idea that the caller who had announced himself as Mr. Alpheus Cary, had, by some means, come to know that the real Mr. Cary was in the neighborhood, and had fled because of that.
His fleeing seemed to Nick to suggest that in some way this person was either the Brown Robin or some one connected with that person.
The audacity of the effort to impersonate Cary in an interview with Nick further suggested that the person had much confidence in his own skill, and was rather conceited about it.
He thought it probable that he would be put under observation in his next attempt to leave the house.
So he directed Chick to go out an
