“Not much. He’s been arrested,” said Gilmore. “I thought all along that there was something wrong down there.”
Geary laughed.
“I never saw you act as you are acting to-night,” he said. “What has got into you?”
“I tell you that there is something wrong in the cellar.”
“Well,” said Geary, “then we’d better go down and make it right.”
He lit a candle as he spoke.
Gilmore reached up to turn off the gas.
His companion caught him by the arm.
“Wait!” he said, in a whisper.
“What is it?”