"I think you should take the conductors, both train and Pullman, into your confidence, and then send telegrams to New York to have the spies met with the proper reception. You can telegraph Bobby, I mean my father, if you think it best, and he can get in cahoots with the Secret Service people in New York. Bobby is the kind of man who doesn't let things go wrong. When he bores a hole in the mountain it comes out on the opposite side just exactly where he meant it to,--when he swings a bridge across a river it stays swung,--there is no giving way of supports and undermining from washings,--Bobby knows. If you telegraph him, he'll have detectives there all right and they will have the necessary warrants and handcuffs, too."
"Well then, Bobby it is!" and Jeffrey Tucker quickly took Mr. Kean's address. Next the conductors were interviewed, and those good Americans quickly complied with any and every request. A long and explicit telegram was written to the gentleman who did not let mistakes happen, another one sent to the chief of police, in case Mr. Kean should not be at home to receive the telegram, (Jeffrey Tucker being the kind of man who did not let mistakes occur, either,) and then there was nothing to do but sit quietly in the Pullman and wait for the train to steam into New York.
It seemed to Judy to be hours and hours, although the time certainly passed pleasantly with the friends she made on the train. She and Mr. Tucker talked to everybody except the two sporty looking individuals, and they would have had the audacity to talk with them if they had been given the slightest encouragement. But the Misels kept their backs studiously turned to their fellow travelers and did not court sociability.
"Suppose they get off at Manhattan Junction and go to the Hudson Terminal instead of the big Pennsylvania Station!" panted Judy, her eyes shining with excitement and her fluffy hair standing on end as though an electric shock had gone through her system.
"Who is giving the game away now?" teased her new friend. "I thought of that and warned the chief when I telegraphed him. If they do get off there, I'll get off, too, and you can go on to the other station where your father will meet you."