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"I mean if they, too, have not discovered that he was at Makoff's if they have not got there first!" he said grimly. "There seems to be no limit to their cleverness, or their power. They penetrated his disguise as a chauffeur, and who knows what more they have learned since last night?
Not Makoff's at Spider Jack's, on Thompson Street!" he was clipping off his words, still holding her tightly by the shoulders, still staring into her eyes. "You know Spider Jack! Jack's little novelty store! Ah, you have not learned all of the underworld yet! Spider Jack is the craftiest 'fence' in the Bad Lands and Makoff is his partner.
He turned and looked about him, and, his eyes growing accustomed to the darkness, he could just make out Makoff's place, bordering the end of the yard nor, from this new vantage point, could he discover, any more than before, a single sign of life about the pawnbroker's establishment.
Down here, adjoining the high board fence of Spider Jack's back yard, Makoff made pretense at pawnbrokering in a small and dingy wooden building, that was little more pretentious than a shed and in Makoff's place, so far as he could see, there was no light, either.
"But since last night, since you knew that things had gone wrong," he persisted, "surely you traced that telephone number the one you called up?" "Yes," she said, and shrugged her shoulders in a tired way. "Naturally I did that but, like everything else, it amounted to nothing. He telephoned from Makoff's pawnshop on that alley off Thompson Street, and "
Between now and then there lay that package! If it were at Makoff's, at Spider Jack's, if he could find it, get it the Magpie as a temporary custodian of the estate's money would at least preclude its loss by flight if the Crime Club took alarm too quickly. Larry the Bat's eyes, under half-closed lids, rested musingly on the Magpie's face. The Magpie would not get very far away with it!
"John Johansson box number four-two-eight! And like a fool I never thought of it! Don't you see? Don't you know now yourself? She stood up, clinging to him; a wild relief, that was based on her confidence in him, in her eyes and face, even while she shook her head. "No," she said frantically. "No I do not know. Tell me, Jimmie! Tell me quickly! You mean at Makoff's?" "No!
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