Heberdon did not remain at the Twenty-fifth Street house for the night, but returned to Gramercy Park. In order to get any sleep it was necessary for him to increase the dose of “sopora” again, and consequently in the morning to take more cocaine to rouse himself. When he finally started out his brain was like a horse running a race on a treadmill; it galloped but it got nowhere. Every day now it was becoming more and more difficult to think things out to a conclusion.
All morning he was busy with the idea of robbing the Hudson Electric Company. The preliminaries offered no special difficulties. Easy enough to borrow the key while Alvey slept—Heberdon had already satisfied himself that the careless youth left his door unlocked at night—and easy enough probably, once he was armed with the
