Blake that they have carried off his young wife."
"For that reason or one similar. He is a man of resources, they may
have hoped he would help them to escape the country."
"If they don't hide in the German quarter they certainly won't in the
Italian, French or Irish. What they want is too keep close and rouse
no questions. I think they will be found to have gone up the river
somewhere, or over to Jersey. Hoboken would'nt be a bad place to send
Schmidt to."
"You forget what it is they've got on their minds; besides no
conspicuous party such as they could live in a rural district without
attracting more attention than in the most crowded tenement house in
the city."
"Where do you think, then, they would be liable to go?"
"Well my most matured thought on the subject," returned Mr. Gryce,
after a moment's deliberation, "is this,--you say, and I agree, that
they have hampered themselves with this woman at this time for the
purpose of using her hereafter in a scheme of black-mail upon Mr.
Blake. He, then, must be the object about which their thoughts
revolve and toward which whatever operations or plans they may be
engaged upon must tend. What follows? When a company of men have made
up their minds to rob a bank, what is the first thing they do? They
hire, if possible, a house next to the especial building they intend
to enter, and for months work upon the secret passage through which
they hope to reach the safe and its contents; or they make friends
with the watchman that guards its treasures, and the janitor who opens
and shuts the doors.
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