"What's that?" I asked curiously, when at last he had finished and
I felt at liberty to question him.
"Well, you see," he explained, "there is no way of knowing yet
just how the apartment will be entered. They apparently have some
way, though, which they wouldn't discuss over the telephone. But
it is certain that as long as they know that there is anyone up
here, they will put off the attempt. They said that."
He was busily engaged restoring everything in the room as far as
possible to its former position.
"My scheme," he went on, "is for us now to leave the apartment
ostentatiously. I think that is calculated to insure the burglary,
for they must have someone watching by this time. Then we can get
back to that empty apartment in the house on the next street, and
before they can get around to start anything, we shall be prepared
for them."
Garrick stopped to speak to the hall-boy again as we left,
carrying the other box. What he said I did not hear but the boy
nodded intelligently.
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