CHAPTER XXIVA NEW MOVE
When they were out in the street, Chick said to Patsy:
“Something’s coming off tonight at that place.”
“And something’s going to be brought in a closed carriage,” added Patsy.
“And we have got to be on hand to see what it is,” added Chick.
The man with whom they had been talking had lagged behind a bit and now came from the saloon and joined them.
“Say,” he said, “you haven’t said whether you was fly-cops or not. Well, I don’t care whether you are or not, but I give it to you straight that Dempsey stopped me to ask who you were.”
“What did you tell him?” asked Patsy.
“I told him you were friends of mine that I had brought in for a drink here.”
Chick and Patsy had no reason to disbelieve the man, but, nevertheless, they felt, if he had not told them the truth
