Did you hear those footsteps over
the detectaphone? That was the Boss going out of the garage. So,
they expect me around there, nosing about Warrington's apartment.
Well, if I do go there, and then ostentatiously go away again,
that will lure them on."
He reached his decision quickly. Grabbing his hat, he led the way
out of the Old Tavern and up the street until we came to a drug
store with a telephone.
I heard him first talking with Warrington, getting from him the
combination of the safe, over long distance. Then he called up his
office and asked the boy to meet him at the Grand Central subway
station with a package, the location of which he described
minutely.
"We'll beat them to it," he remarked joyously, as we started
leisurely uptown to meet the boy.
Chapter XIII
THE INCENDIARY
"The Warrington estate owns another large apartment house, besides
the one where Warrington has his quarters, on the next street,"
remarked Garrick, half an hour later, after we had met the boy
from his office.
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