In short they hang about their prey before they
pounce upon it. And so will these Schoenmakers do in the somewhat
different robbery which they plan sooner or later to effect. Whatever
may keep them close at this moment, Mr. Blake and Mr. Blake's house is
the point toward which their eyes are turned, and if we had time--"
"But we have'nt," I broke in impetuously. "It is horrible to think of
that grand woman languishing away in the power of such rascals."
"If we had time," Mr. Gryce persisted, "all it would be necessary to
do would be to wait, they would come into our hands as easily and
naturally as a hawk into the snare of the fowler. But as you say we
have not, and therefore, I would recommend a little beating of the
bush directly about Mr. Blake's house; for if all my experience is
not at fault, those men are already within eye-shot of the prey they
intend to run down."
"But," said I, "I have been living myself in that very neighborhood
and know by this time the ways of every house in the vicinity. There
is not a spot up and down the Avenue for ten blocks where they could
hide away for two days much less two weeks. And as for the side
streets,--why I could tell you the names of those who live in each
house for a considerable distance. Yet if you say so I will go to
work--"
"Do, and meanwhile Schmidt and Rosenthal shall rummage the German
quarter and even go through Williamsburgh and Hoboken.
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