“I mean that I’ll find the way to stop that. Call to me the moment those three men come down again.”
I returned to Boreski and told him.
“We must enter that room and stop it.”
“Yes, I’m with you.”
“You go in by the dressing-room door and take Ivan. I’ll take this man. When I call to you, get in as fast as you can. Turn out all the lights here or they’ll see us enter.”
Out they went promptly and we stood in the darkness waiting for Helga’s voice.
“They’ve come down, monsieur,” she called a few minutes later, and in a trice I had turned the key and burst into the room.
The luck was ours. The room was empty. Never dreaming that we should venture in, they had left it unguarded. All round the sides were piled heaps of straw and dry wood, ready to be fired, and the evidence of their dastardly trick lay plain to our eyes.
Had it not been for Helga’s quickness the infernal plan would have been successful.
“We have them now,” I said eagerly to Boreski. “We’ll trap them here. They’ll be back in a moment. We’ll wait and give them an unexpected welcome.”