Inside Alice could see nothing. It appeared to be just across the passage.
But before she had time to think twice about it the two Chinamen gave her a sudden push.
The doctor jumped aside and poor Alice went flying through the door of death.
CHAPTER V.
OLD KING BRADY GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS.
Harper's Hotel, on Mission street, both before and since the fire was always a great resort for Secret Service men.
In fact, the proprietor himself was formerly one.
As it happened, this was one of the few buildings in that part of the city which escaped the fire, so the public house at which Old King Brady turned up late that afternoon was the same old Harper's Hotel.
Detective Leggett, disguised as a dock laborer, sat in the cafe playing dominoes with another Secret Service man.