Half an hour later they had found the place where, as Harrigan claimed, "de French leddy" had delivered the trunks to him. "I t'ought o' course she'd been fired out o' some boardin'-house," said Harrigan. "Dere's a hash-mill dere on der right. I had an idea she'd been trun out o' dere." Nick meanwhile had been examining the sidewalk with the aid of his dark lantern. "Clever work," he said.