“Who? The assistant? He’s down there somewhere. So is Marcos.”
“They’re not together?”
“Of course not. Dugan put them in separate cellars. There are four cellars and they have been used as storage places for different materials ever since the building was no longer used as an ice house.”
“You have allowed Marcos to have cigarettes?”
“Yes. He smokes most of the time. That’s his chief amusement—except when I go down to see him. Then he changes his occupation by abusing me.”
“Very well. Where are Dugan and his men?”
“They are coming to-night to help me get Marcos away. It isn’t safe to leave him here. The house stands by itself, and we don’t know who might come to see what we are doing.”
“Dugan has it leased at present, hasn’t he?”
“Yes. He has some portable property he did not want to keep in New York, so he took this place for a year, under the name of Morrison. And there is a lot of stuff in one of the four cellars belonging to him. He will take that to-night, when we move Marcos. His men will be with him, and he will do everything at once.”
“Where did you intend to put Marcos?”