This left the old detective in no pleasant frame of mind.
"I suppose we have got to get the police, make a raid on this lane and overhaul everything," he declared.
"What about Pell street?" asked Alice. "There are those abandoned secret rooms you were in yesterday. They lie nearly in the rear of this house. There might something come of it if we tried our luck there again."
"I am afraid not, Alice. Harry and I went over that ground pretty thoroughly, still we can try."
"Is it so that I can go in there?"
"I don't know why not. We will get back to the room. You can change to your ordinary dress. Then we will look up the wardman."
"You don't intend to try it alone then?"
"No, I think it will be best for us to have help. No use in mincing matters in this case. There is no telling what we may run up against."
To secure the wardman it was necessary to go, to the Elizabeth street station, something Old King Brady greatly disliked to do, for he hates to have to apply to the police in connection with his own affairs.
He got the help readily enough, however.