"Well?" said the detective quickly, to his assistant.

"What has happened on your side of the fence?"

"It's all over," was the smiling reply.

"Did they break into the house?"

"Yes."

"How many of them?"

"Twenty."

"I got one more than you did. We have twenty-one."

"Pretty nearly evened the thing up in making their attack didn't they, Nick?"

"So it seems. Did Mustushimi, by any chance, go around your way, Chick?"