“For the nearest railway station. But I think we can overtake them.”
“We must do so!” cried the young detective. “We have staked too much to lose now.”
“You are right we have. But one of our men is still here!”
“Who?”
“Napoleon Blood!”
“The old scoundrel! I have the town constable with me. We will arrest him and Scraggs, too.”
“Very good!”
“Paine will look out for Miss Grimm until we want to take her back to New York. Everything is working all right.”
“Splendid! Let us then give chase to the trio at once!”
Scraggs was arrested at once and easily frightened into revealing the hiding place of Blood.