"The ante-room is there at the left where those two shuttered windows are. The cabinet is in the corner room—there is one window on this side and two on the other."
"Wait till I take a look at them," he said, and, vaulting the low railing, he walked quickly along the front of the house and around the corner. He was gone only a minute. "They're all right," he said, in a tone of relief.
"Of course they're all right. You didn't suppose—"
"If that cabinet contains what I thought it did, Lester—yes," he added, a little savagely, as he saw my look, "and what I still think it does—it wouldn't be safe in the strongest vault of the National City Bank," and he motioned for me to ring the bell.
I did so, in silence.
Parks answered it almost instantly, and I could tell from the way his face changed how glad he was to see me.
"Well, Parks," I said, as we stepped inside, "everything is all right, I hope?"
"Yes, sir," he answered. "But—but it gets on the nerves a little, sir."
I heard a movement behind me, as I gave Parks my coat, and turned to see Rogers sitting on the cot.
"Hello," I said, "so you're able to be up, are you?"