It is Chick returning from the other house. Wait here and keep a watch on the windows, and I will go and meet him."
"What shall I do if I see that an attack is about to be made?"
"Just call out to me, that is all."
The detective descended to the basement then, and met Chick, who was returning from the other house.
"Well?" he asked of him.
"There are seven of them outside the other house," explained Chick. "Gordon thinks that they have somehow tumbled to the idea that we are using both of the houses, and it is his idea that they mean to attack them both at the same time."
"It is my idea, also. It has been so all the time. Mustushimi is far too smart to be taken in by appearances."
"Then how shall we divide our forces?"
"You will remain there with Gordon. I will keep the senator here with me."
"Do you think you can depend upon him if it comes to a fight-if the wires should fail to work, or anything like that?"