"Then we've got them!" Kowen declared. "It's a cinch they can't get down!"
"Don't forget that we had the Black Star on a roof once, and he got down," Verbeck reminded him. "I just examined that door; it's a strong one."
"Why use the door?" Lawrence asked quietly. "I know this building pretty well, and I can get to the roof without going through the door at all."
"How?" Verbeck asked.
"I can get through that window, hang to the cornice, and draw myself up."
"You'd fall, man!" Kowen declared. "You'd kill yourself!"
"I can do it!" Verbeck exclaimed. "It isn't a bit harder than things I'm doing in the gymnasium all the time."
He hurried to the window, opened it, and looked at the cornice above.
"Don't try it!" Kowen said. "It's twelve stories to the pavement below, Mr. Verbeck."
"But I'm not going to fall!"