You will go to Nina San Croix in the disguise which
you have always used, and from her to the yacht, and by this means
step out of your real status and back into it without leaving
traces. I will come here to-morrow evening and furnish you with
everything that you shall need and give you full and exact
instructions in every particular. These details you must execute
with the greatest care, as they will be vitally essential to the
success of my plan."
Through it all Walcott had been silent and motionless. Now he
arose, and in his face there must have been some premonition of
protest, for Mason stepped back and put out his hand. "Sir," he
said, with brutal emphasis, "not a word. Remember that you are
only the hand, and the hand does not think." Then he turned around
abruptly and went out of the house.
III
The place which Samuel Walcott had selected for the residence of
Nina San Croix was far up in the northern suburb of New York. The
place was very old. The lawn was large and ill kept; the house, a
square old-fashioned brick, was set far back from the street, and
partly hidden by trees.
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