"I am sure of it. I would never forget his face. Wakely, too, seems familiar, but I can't place him."
"Maybe Wakely is a member of their gang, and perhaps Annister, too, is in with them."
"I shouldn't be surprised. What do you think we had better do?"
Neither of them yet recognized Wakely as Tupper.
"I think we'd better get out of this place before they come back with reinforcements," said Roy with a laugh. He was cool, despite what he had gone through, for he was somewhat used to meeting danger and doing his best to escape.
"I'll slide down my rope again," he went on, "come up the stairs, and open the door. Then we can talk it over. I must get my baggage away from here."
It did not take the boy long to repeat his feat with the lariat, and soon, having found a key, he opened the door from without, releasing Mortimer De Royster.