"I think you'll stay there for a while," said Wakely
"But what right have you got to bring me here?"
"Never mind about that. You're here, and you're going to stay."
"I'll call for help, as soon as I'm able."
"And a lot of good it will do you. You are on the top floor of a tenement house, and there are no tenants except on the first floor. You can yell until you are hoarse, for there is a big electric light plant near here. It runs night and day and it makes so much noise constantly that all the yelling you can do won't be heard above it. Besides, if the tenants should happen to hear you yelling, they'll pay no attention to you, for you are supposed to be crazy. I told 'em so. Now you see how helpless you are."
Roy felt stunned. Why had this man gotten him in his power?
"But I can't see what you want of me," went on Roy weakly. "If it's money, why take what I have, if you mean to rob me."
"No. I'm not going to rob you."
"Then are you kidnapping me, and holding me for a ransom?" Roy had read of such things.
"Not much! Kidnapping isn't in my line. I am acting under orders for a friend of mine. He wants you kept out of the way for a while, and I'm going to do it.