A
clever person reading the letter would be certain I was asking her to
send me my clothes."
"What's the point to that?"
"One detail of the police's search for me will be to open secretly,
with the aid of the postal authorities, all mail addressed to my
grandmother. They will steam open this letter about my clothes, then
seal it and let it be delivered. But they will have learned that I
have escaped them and am in Chicago. They will drop the hunt here and
telegraph the Chicago police, And of course the news will leak through
to my old friends, and they'll also stop looking for me in New York."
"I see."
"And enclosed in another letter written by you, I'll send an order,
also to be posted in Chicago, to a good friend of mine asking him to
call at the express office, get my clothes, and hold them until I call
or send for them. When he goes and asks for the clothes, the Chicago
police will get him and find the order on him. They'll have no charge
at all against him, but they'll have further proof that I'm in Chicago
or some place in the Middle West. The effect will be definitely to
transfer the search from New York."
"Yes, I see," repeated Miss Sherwood. "Go ahead and do it; I'll help
you. But for the present you've got to remain right here in the
apartment, as I said.
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