The other must be waiting to appear in some other role.
Nick listened. He could hear the colonel questioning the supposed spirit.
The replies were put in that silly and mysterious language supposed to be appropriate to visitors from the other world.
The meaning of them, however, was plain enough. Colonel Richmond was commanded to restore the jewels to Millie Stevens.
This point was made so exceedingly clear, and his promise was demanded in such stringent terms that Nick was no longer able to doubt that the interests of the Stevenses were being very carefully attended to by these "spook-compellers."
In view of the facts already known, it was hardly possible to reach any other conclusion than that Millie Stevens had hired this medium to do the whole job.
That it was being done "to the queen's taste," Nick was forced to admit.
Yet he couldn't help being sorry to believe that such a charming and beautiful girl as Millie Stevens should be mixed up in such a dirty business.
He waited till Colonel Richmond had completed his solemn protestations, and then suddenly slid the panel and passed through.
There was another person in the cabinet, who was, of course, instantly aware of Nick's entrance.