The telephone rang.
"Yes, what is it?"
"A telegram for you, Colonel."
"Send it up!"
Tearing open the envelope Colonel Ashley read:
"Spotty Morgan has confessed everything and agrees to extradition.
Shall we send him on?"
"Send him on? I should say so!" cried the colonel to himself, as he made a grab for the telephone to dictate a message telling the police of Sango, the Western city, to hold Spotty Morgan until he could come for him. "And so Spotty has confessed? Well, that let's me out, even if he did save my, life! But it was a close call!"
CHAPTER XX
IN THE SHADOWS
Colonel Ashley, after a night's sleep, was about to prepare for the trip, when he thought of Darcy in jail.