“What do you mean?” asked Vendra.
“Just this,” explained Blatz. “Your bulldog watchman here has knocked out Andy High, son of Charles High, executive vice president of the National Airways who is in charge of the building of the Goliath. Andy is my ‘chaperon’ at Bellevue and the only one who has appeared to be suspicious of me. He must have followed me from the hotel.”
Vendra was silent for a minute, pondering the situation which confronted them.
“It is regrettable,” he said. “You must return to Bellevue to fulfill your mission of destroying the Goliath, the air monster.”
“But I can’t go back now,” protested Blatz.
“Return to your hotel at once,” said Vendra.
“When anyone asks where you have been, tell them on a long taxi ride through the city and Central Park.”
“Andy will never believe such a story,” protested Blatz.
“He won’t be able to disprove it,” countered Vendra. “As soon as you leave I’ll take him out of here. We’ll leave him in another street before he recovers consciousness. He’ll never be able to find his way back here and you’ll make a complete denial if he ever openly accuses you. It is ticklish, I admit, but it is the only way out.”
Blatz finally agreed and hastened from the room, to return at once to the hotel where he found Bert and Harry waiting.