CHAPTER XXVI

RIGHT AND LEFT There had been a shiver and a scamper in that nether world of which Craig for a period had been the unwilling “Napoleon.” There was no doubt about that. The word had been passed: “Lay low.” There was nothing new about this. Every now and then some such warning went out--following some big crime, preceding some special investigation, and especially around election time. But to a number of the denizens of this underworld had the signal come with special violence--particularly to those who had recently …