CHAPTER VI.AN AUDACIOUS VISITOR.
After he had removed his disguise, Nick said to his two aids:
“The Cary case will give us little trouble after this. I shall probably continue to play his part in it, but it will amount to little more than shelling out some money. She thinks she has captured him.
“She is a wonderfully clever woman, and is using the Cary incident merely as a cover to the big strike on Mountain.
“Now, Chick, tell me what you found in Seventeenth Street?”
“That the house was empty; that it had been occupied but two or three days; that the rent had been paid for a month; but possession has not been given up.”
“Do you know who rented it?”
“A woman who gave the name of Mrs. Stanton.”
“Hum! I fancy that she has rented another house this evening, the one in Thirtieth Street
