“I don’t know what you are talking about?” said the girl.
“Come, come,” said Nick, “I am the officer who had you under arrest up at Hall’s place. You were released in order that you might show the way to Hughart’s hiding place. Molly, by the way, has been taken to my house, and you can see her there.”
The girl stepped back in wonder.
“You must be Nick Carter,” she said. “No other man could so disguise himself and do what you have done here.”
“The same, at your service,” replied Nick, with a laugh.
“Then I suppose I’ll have to go with you,” said the girl, “but you won’t get anything out of me.”
Presently the police came—two patrolmen who had heard the whistle.
Nick made himself known, told them to see that the crooks were taken to police headquarters, and asked one of them to call a carriage.
Hughart was still unconscious from the blow he had received, and had to be carried to the vehicle.