"
It was Giuseppe's turn to show surprise now.
"With your assistance I'll get this man and the whole gang
to-night," explained Craig, rapidly sketching over his plan and
concealing just enough to make sure that no matter how anxious
the lieutenant was to get the credit he could not spoil the
affair by premature interference.
The final arrangement was that four of the best men of the squad
were to hide in a vacant store across from Vincenzo's early in
the evening, long before anyone was watching. The signal for them
to appear was to be the extinguishing of the lights behind the
coloured bottles in the druggist's window. A taxicab was to be
kept waiting at headquarters at the same time with three other
good men ready to start for a given address the moment the alarm
was given over the telephone.
We found Gennaro awaiting us with the greatest anxiety at the
opera-house. The bomb at Cesare's had been the last straw.
Gennaro had already drawn from his bank ten crisp
one-thousand-dollar bills, and already had a copy of Il Progresso
in which he had hidden the money between the sheets.
"Mr. Kennedy," he said, "I am going to meet them to-night. They
may kill me. See, I have provided myself with a pistol--I shall
fight, too, if necessary for my little Adelina. But if it is only
money they want, they shall have it.
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