The girl swung herself in front of Patsy and said, in a low voice:
“Now’s your chance; git down the stairs.”
Patsy turned and went down the stairs not hurriedly, but watchfully.
He was trying to see if Spike Thomas and Bally Morris had been attracted by the rumpus.
He could see nothing of them, but he could not believe that they had not heard the noise and had not seen him.
However, he reached the street without further interference, and, placing himself in a position where he could watch the door without being seen himself, waited to see the two crooks come from the house.
He had waited for some time, when the girl who had first given the alarm as to himself, and then seemed to act as his friend, came to the door and stood looking about as if for some one.
Patsy laughed to himself as he said:
“Hang me if I don’t think she’s looking for me. I must have jollied her for fair.”
After waiting a few minutes the girl went up the street slowly a few doors, when she stopped and again looked around.