Scraggs looked desperate.
“I don’t know ’em!” he said.
“Come now, that lie won’t save you. Search the place, men! We’ll find them and——”
Harry ceased talking. Old King Brady had appeared.
In a moment the two detectives were comparing notes.
“I reached Paine’s all right,” said Harry, “and the girl is safe. It took a long while to get these men together.”
“Too bad!” said Old King Brady. “For our birds are gone!”
“Gone?” gasped the young detective.
“Yes.”
“Where?”