Jacqueline caught sight of his retreating figure and her eyes widened.
I thought I saw a shadow of fear in them. Then the memory was effaced
and she was smiling again.

I instructed the store to call a messenger and have the suit-case taken
at once to the baggage-room in the Grand Central station.

"Now, Jacqueline, I'm going to take you to lunch," I said. "And
afterward we will start for home."

Outside the store I looked carefully around and espied Leroux almost
immediately lighting a cigar in the doorway of a shop. I hit upon a
rather daring plan to escape him.

Carson's offices were in a large modern building, with many elevators
and entrances. I walked toward it with Jacqueline, being satisfied
that Leroux was following us; entered about twenty-five yards before
him, and ascended in the elevator, getting off, however, on the floor
above that on which the offices were.

I was satisfied that Leroux would follow me a minute later, under the
impression that we had gone to the Northern Exploitation Company, and
so, after waiting a minute or two, I took Jacqueline down in another
elevator, and we escaped through the front entrance and jumped into a
taxicab.

I was satisfied that I had thrown Leroux off the scent, but I took the
precaution to stop at a gunsmith's shop and purchase a pair of
automatic pistols and a hundred cartridges. The man would not sell