Nick guided Parks through the dark halls, but he did not take him to the room where the crooks sat chafing in their fetters.
Instead, the two went into the room on the other side of the hall. Nick struck a light, and they took chairs.
“I am simply following you,” said Parks. “I do not understand what we have come here for.”
“To meet the assassin,” said Nick; “but before we do that I wish to impose one condition on you.”
“Name it.”
“I wish you to be disguised.”
“For what reason?”
“I do not wish you to appear as Morton Parks.”
“That is only saying the same thing in other words.”
“True; I had not finished. It is important that when you face the assassin you should not do it in your own character.”