“How can you make sure?” growled Conley.
“We shall know by to-morrow at this time.”
“How so?”
“Because we shall have others after us, Jerry, just as soon as the discovery is made that Carter is missing,” reasoned Badger. “If none show up, we may then safely assume that Sandy Hyde is right, and that Carter has disclosed nothing definite. We shall then know that he’s the only one we need fear, and it will then be time enough to put him down and out.”
“Well, there’s something in that,” Conley now muttered.
“We know he cannot escape.”
“H’m! I should say not.”
“So there’s no need of haste, since we have him in our clutches,” added Badger. “Besides, there is another thing to be considered.”
“What’s that?”
“Carter may have some of his New York assistants here, for all we positively know to the contrary.”