Something had been shouted by one of the men on the roof.
“All right,” the laborer called back, “I’ll bring it up to ye.”
Thereupon Patsy—for, of course, the supposed laborer was none other than Nick Carter’s assistant—rushed upstairs with a coil of rope.
He passed Yasmar on the second flight.
At the top of the third flight, he waited and listened until he heard the Westerner start up from the foot.
That was Patsy’s signal to make for the narrow passage leading to the skylight and the roof.
“There ye are,” he said, as he tossed the coil of rope to the riggers.
Then, without loss of a moment, he returned to the fourth floor.
A door was just closing down the hall as Patsy stepped out of the passage.
The detective was too late to see the man who entered the room, but he was fairly certain it was Yasmar.