“I knew that long ago,” coolly chuckled the fellow. “If you’re interested, let me give you a tip.”

“I shall be thankful.”

“Get the lawyer to have some one stay all night at the plant.”

“There’s the foreman, Bartlett, I understand.”

“Yes, day times. You do as I say.”

“I’ll stay myself.”

“That might do. You are interested, aren’t you, mightily? Then so am I. Say, inasmuch as I’ve blabbed a part of it, out with the whole, say I. There’s going to be a raid on the factory, as I hinted to you, just after midnight.”

“A raid?”

“Exactly. To-morrow the time for Glidden to put up a bond or pay the four thousand dollars expires.”

“Yes,” replied Ralph, “and by ten o’clock, court time, it will be paid.”