Without replying, the assistant locked the door and slipped the key into his pocket.
“Don’t grow excited,” said Alexander Slocum, coldly. “I want to see those papers, that’s all. Show them to me at once!”
Like a flash Jerry realized he was trapped by the enemy.
CHAPTER XXVII.
JERRY’S CLEVER ESCAPE.
Jerry saw at once that things were growing warm. From the look on his face it was plain to see that Alexander Slocum was in deadly earnest when he said he wanted to see those papers.
His manner made our hero feel that the papers would not be safe in his hands. If he gave them up he might never see them again, and without the documents the claim on the land in California would fall flat.