The House on the River by Fred M. White

There was something very heartening about the "Times" advertisement and the two men hiding in the house on the river were encouraged accordingly. They sat over the fire a long time after they had intended to go to bed, discussing this sign of weakness on the part of the enemy and drawing all sorts of more or less illogical deductions from the mass of figures which John Claw had sent to his client. But the advertisement in the "Times" was the thing that encouraged them most.

Turn it over how they would, they could read in it signs of nothing but weakness. It seemed plain enough on the face of it that if those two wily scoundrels had found Kent and patched up their quarrel with him there would have been no occasion to spend money on newspaper advertising. And with Somerset fully acquainted with the fact that a warrant was out for his arrest they would never be simple enough to believe that Somerset would step into so clumsy a lure. No, Kent was either out of his mind still or he had come to the conclusion that it would pay him better in the long run to keep out of the way of his late accomplices.