"I'll say they did and I was just on the point of ordering hands up when you touched me."

"It's a good think I touched you then."

"I'll say it was."

"Say, Jack, did you hear anything while in there?" Bob asked suddenly.

"Heard one fellow snoring if that's what you mean."

"No. I thought I heard something that seemed to come from that back room."

"As if someone was groaning?"

"Yep, that was it."

"Now you speak of it seems as though I did. Yes, I remember wondering what it could be."

"Did you hear it, Lucky?"