"No; I haven't seen him."
"He succeeded in getting away from me."
"That is too bad."
"But we will get him, all right, before the night is over, or, at least, early in the day to come. He can't get very far away, and I will make those fellows talk, even if I have to give them the shocks all over again."
"I think, Nick," said. the assistant, "that the fellow we captured first-the one that Patsy got for you-will be the best one to question. He confessed that he was second in command to Mustushimi himself. If we had him here, we could make him talk without torturing the others with more current."
"That is perhaps so. What is he? A Jap?"
"No; a Frenchman."
"We will send for him or go to him. Where is Patsy? I haven't seen a sign of him since he struck that fellow, in front of the Arlington."
"Patsy is here. He was standing outside the house when the men made the attack on me, and he came in as soon as they were caught."
"I wonder if he was thoughtful enough to have a conveyance handy anywhere?"