pped into that. We should have had
some excuse for arresting him if he had done a thing of that sort,
some charge to prefer against him, whereas, as matters stand,
there's not one we can bring forward that holds good in law or
that we could _prove_ if our lives depended upon it. You see now,
I hope, Mr. Narkom, why you have seen nothing of him lately?"

"No--why?"

"You have not used the red limousine, and he has been lying low ready
to follow that, just as I suspected he would. If he couldn't trace
where Cleek goes to meet the red limousine, clearly then the plan
to be adopted must be to follow the red limousine and see where it
goes to meet Cleek, and then to follow that much-wanted individual
when he parts from you and makes his way home. That is the thing the
fellow is after. To find out where I live and to 'get' me some
night out there. But, my friend, 'turn about is fair play' the world
over, and having had his inning at hunting me, I'm going in for mine
at hunting him. I'll get him; I'll trap him into something for which
he can be turned over to the law--make no mistake about that."

"My hat! What do you mean to do?"

"First and foremost, make my getaway out of the present little
corner," he replied, "and then rely upon your assistance in finding
out where the beggar is located. We're not done with him even for
to-day. He will follow--either he or Serpice: perhaps both--the
instant Lennard starts off with us."

"You are going back with us in the limousine, then?"

"Yes--part of the way. Drive on, Lennard, until you can spot a
plain-clothes man, then give him the signal to follow us. At the
first station on the Tube or the Underground, pull up sharp and let
me out. You, Mr. Narkom, alight with me and stand guard at the
station entrance while I go down to the train. If either Waldemar
or an Apache makes an attempt to follow, arrest him on the spot,
on any charge you care to trump up--it doesn't matter so that it
holds him until my train goes--and as soon as it has gone, call up
your plain-clothes man, point out Serpice to him, and tell him to
follow and to stick to the fellow until he meets Waldemar, if it
takes a week to accomplish it, and then to shadow his precious
countship and find out where he lives. Tell him for me that there's a
ten-pound note in it for him the moment he can tell me where Waldemar
is located; and to stick to his man until he runs him down. Now,
then, hop in, Mr. Narkom, and let's be