"All right. Have you got another supply in the other house?"
"Sure thing."
"All right again. Go back there now."
When the detective returned to the senator, he found the statesman looking through his peep-hole at the window, evidently in some excitement, and he approached and laid his hand upon the senator's shoulder.
"What do you see?" he asked.
"They are coming, Carter."
"I thought it was almost time they made a move."
"They have got a lot of wood, or a beam, or something very like one. I think they are going to use it to smash down the door."
"Without doubt."
"Won't the people in the other houses on the street raise a row, Nick?"