Geary grinned and pointed toward the old chophouse cellar.
“You’ll find them down there behind the bank vault,” he said.
And there the officers were found, nearly suffocated and foaming with rage.
CHAPTER XIX.
AWAITING NICK CARTER.
While these events were transpiring in Chicago the New York chief of police was being interviewed by a woman who had a most remarkable story to tell.
So remarkable, indeed, that the chief persuaded his caller to defer any action till Nick Carter returned home.
The result was that when Nick reached his office he found this note awaiting him:
“Please call and see Miss Louise Templin at the St. James Hotel. Don’t wait to see me first. See her. Very urgent.”
Nick did not need to glance at the signature to find out who had written this characteristic note.
“When the chief says ‘very urgent,’ he means it,” was Nick’s inward comment.