"Good heavens!" exclaimed the Cuban. "Where did you come from?"
"The moon, of course, but the place you are going to will be much nearer at hand."
Nick caught him by the arm and marched him out of the room.
Handing him over to Chick who was still conversing with the colored man, Nick said:
"Take this fellow to police headquarters."
He then turned to young Rogers.
The young man was bewildered from astonishment.[Pg 53]
He was positively dazed to learn that Nick knew about his arrangements with Moreno.
He could not understand how it was possible for him to have discovered it, and he looked at him in silence in the same manner as he would have looked at a supernatural being.
Nick saw that the young fellow was overwhelmed with surprise; but there was no time to be lost.