“Excellent!” had exclaimed the detective. “They seem the very kind of gentlemen I want, and I'll go and get as near to them as I can.”
But no one could be more wary and circumspect than was Larose when it was necessary, and he fully realised that if these men had anything to do with those he was after, then they would be on guard all the time and on the look out for anyone watching their movements.
Added to that, too, if the men did belong to the gang, they would by now be quite aware that he, Larose, was in the neighborhood, and doubly on the lookout, in that case for anyone answering to his description.
But of course, he told himself, they might be quite harmless, inoffensive men, and here, as with the butler, he might be wasting all his time. Still, he must try and find out something
