Jennings looked after him with a smile.

"I'll catch the whole gang," he murmured, and took his departure, having learned what he wished to know--to wit, that Gibber had disappeared.
"Without doubt he was the boy who poisoned Tyke," said Jennings, as he walked home with a cigar for company.

"I believe Maraquito is the head of the gang, and the fatal woman that Caranby talks about.

She heard that Tyke had been arrested, and sent the boy to poison him lest he should blab.

I wonder if it was by her direction that the house was fired.