“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?”