For an instant neither could speak.
To be so suddenly snatched from the very jaws of death was such a strain upon their nerves that they could hardly stand it.
Old King Brady was the first to recover, and glancing upward he saw that their enemy had disappeared from the beam overhead.
"By thunder!" he exclaimed. "La Croix is baffled!"
"I never expected such good luck," replied Harry, delightedly.
"The car is holding, all right."
"Yes, but how are we to get out of it?"
They were caught midway between the second and third floors.
But the parting of the cable had been detected by the engineer and the conductor of an ascending car in the next shaft as the falling elevator flew down past him, and help was coming.
As the news spread, people flocked out in the hall, filled with dread lest the two officers had been killed.