“I guess I have. I need some honest persons to look after me. Well, maybe I’ll get them, after this affair is over.”
Accompanied by Tom and Mr. Boise the doctor went back home, to “clear the rascals out,” as he expressed it several times, on the ride to the Back Bay district.
CHAPTER XXIV
THE FLIGHT
“Suppose we should be too late,” suggested the doctor, as they neared the house.
“I think we will be in time,” replied Mr. Boise. “Of course Mrs. Sandow may become suspicious over what happened while Tom was there, and she may inform her husband. But they can do little now.”
“Can we get back what they have already taken?” inquired the physician. “I am not overly fond of money, in fact all I use it for is to buy books, but I do not like to be robbed and cheated, especially by those whom I have befriended. When my brother died I told his widow she could live with me as my housekeeper. Then, when she got married again, I still allowed her and her husband to live in my house. And this is the way they have repaid me!”
“I fancy we will be able to make them give up their ill-gotten spoils,” remarked the lawyer. “But we must first catch them.”
“You say one of your partners was mixed in with Sandow in the game?” asked Dr. Spidderkins.
“Yes; I am sorry to say Mr. Cutler seems to be involved. Without his aid Barton Sandow could not have done what he has. But I shall deal with him, and also with a man named Leeth, who aided him and Sandow.”
“I was just wondering if perhaps that Cutler might not suspect something, and give the Sandows warning,” suggested the doctor.