He could, therefore, give all the emphasis he desired to the demand he made upon Headquarters for a close watch to be set on the adjoining dry-goods shop, for the purpose of intercepting and obtaining the address of a certain package, on the point of being expressed from there to some place up the river.
Then he went home; for by now he was fully as tired as his years demanded.
XXI PERPLEXED "Elvira Brown." "Elvira Brown?
That the name on the package ?" "Yes." "And the address ?" The name of a small town in the Catskills was given him.
"Thank you.

Very good work." And Mr.Gryce hung up the receiver.

Then he stood thinking.
"Elvira Brown! A very fair alias--that is, the _Brown_ end.

But what am I to think of _Elvira_?
And what am I to think of the _Brown_, now that I remember that the woman who has chosen to hide her identity under another name is a Frenchwoman.

Something queer! Let me see if I can call up the station-master at the place she's gone." A long-distance connection proving practicable, he found himself after a little while in communication with the man he wanted.
"I'm Gryce, of the New York police.