“If you get a hot foot after you, don’t come here.”
“No; the coppers have had pointers enough already.”
“We may come back if we get the boodle and come out all right, though?”
Parks asked the question in a sneering tone.
“As you choose.”
Then Chick heard Parks and Nixon leaving the place, and heard Gilmore and Geary go up the cellar stairs.
He was practically alone in the cellar.
The man he had overpowered on entering lay unconscious by the bank vault.
“I got him through that partition just in time,” thought the detective, as he peered through the broken cellar wall, “for they would have hunted the place over until they found me, had they seen their chum lying there.”
According to instructions, Chick had slipped into the cellar during the fight in the dining room.