The men talked over various other matters, and then, as the hour was growing late, they departed, leaving Peter and Noddy in charge of Jimmy. “Better turn in,” advised the blue-handed man to Peter. “Guess I will,” said the former copy boy. “I’m going to get up early, and get a morning paper to see if Larry has put a personal in.” While he was getting ready for bed Noddy went in to look at Jimmy. He found the lad’s face wet with tears. “Poor little chap,” remarked Noddy. “I wish I was out of this game.” Then he, too, went to bed, and there was silence in the headquarters of the Rising Sun gang, broken only by the breathing of the sleepers. Outside the hum and confusion of Chinatown went on in the semi-darkness. Meanwhile Larry and Mr. Newton had been planning away. They had told each other their experiences, and Mr. Newton was glad to learn that Larry had located the headquarters of the gang. “I can’t understand the man from the pawn-shop going in there, however,” commented the older reporter. “He may be mixed up with the gang, but it hardly seems possible that the jewel robbers, the safe-crackers, and the kidnappers are all members of one organization. However, if it’s so, so much the better.” “Why?” “Because we’ll bag them all at once, and kill two or three birds with one stone. Now let’s see what we’d better do first.” “Did you ever hear of the Rising Sun gang,” asked Larry. “Many times. They’re about as bad as any crowd that infests New York.” “Why not get a lot of police officers, and raid the place?” suggested Larry. “It would be all right if we could guard every entrance,” said Mr. Newton. “But they have half a dozen, and they’d be sure to escape through one or the other.” “How are you going to do it, then?” “I think we’ll resort to a little strategy,” said the older reporter. “We’ll insert another personal, directed to the blue-handed man, asking where we can go to sign the deed. They evidently missed that first one. It was put in before they expected it.” “But do you really want me to sign the deed?” asked Larry. “Not for the world. We’ll simply ask them where we can meet them to sign it. We’re not promising to do what they want. I’ll write the advertisement out now, and we can put it in all the morning papers.” “After that, what?” “We’ll wait for an answer, and then we’ll be guided by what occurs next.” So the advertisement, carefully worded, was prepared, and Mr. Newton took it to an agent who made a business of inserting notices in all the New York papers. When this had been done it was evening, and, as there seemed to be little chance of accomplishing anything more that night, Mr. Newton advised Larry to go to bed and get a good night’s sleep. “Perhaps I’d better stay around in the neighborhood of the gang’s headquarters,” suggested Larry. “They might take Jimmy away during the night.”