twenty minutes past ten
Remember , not till they have met and finished their talk . Then you can take the boy along with Atwater . I 'll rush the woman away with Mr. Witherspoon . '' It was twenty minutes past ten when McNerney saw the dark-clad form of Leah Einstein swiftly gliding along in the shade from Third Avenue . Onward she sped , never turning her veiled face to the right or left , until she slackened her pace under the gloomy cornices of the Dry Dock Bank . The policeman sprang into a dark hallway as she passed , holding his breath lest the shy bird should take alarm . In a few moments Emil Einstein sauntered across the Bowery and circling around the deserted bank corner , then settled down into a slow , searching pace , threading the lonely south side of the darkened cross street .