But when the valet, instead of crossing the street, went up to a door of a house and rang the bell, she began to suspect that all was not as it should be.
"What are you going here for, Thomas?" she asked. "There's the laboratory—over there."
"But, Miss Dodge," he apologized, "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Bennett are here. They told me they'd be here."
The door was opened quickly by a lookout of the Clutching Hand and the valet asked if Craig and Elaine's lawyer were in. Of course the lookout replied that they were and, before Elaine knew it, she was jostled into the dark hallway and the door was banged shut.
Resistance was useless now and she was hurried along until another door was opened.
There she saw LeCroix and the other crooks.
And, as the door slammed, she caught sight of the fearsome Clutching
Hand himself.
She drew back, but was too frightened even to scream.
With a harsh, cruel laugh, the super-criminal beckoned to her to follow him and look down through a small trap door.
Unable now to resist, she looked.