“I’ll find a way, let me alone for that.”
“Meantime——” began Vic.
“No more here,” interposed Badger. “It’s too infernally damp and cold. Go back to the house, you two women, and I’ll presently join you there. I’ll first make sure that things here are all safe.”
“All right, Amos.”
The two women withdrew from the vault, Nick following them with his gaze.
The two men remained, and both now proceeded to make doubly sure that the ropes binding Nick’s arms and limbs were securely knotted.
Not a word was spoken.
The work required less than a minute, and Badger then took up the lantern and signed for Conley to go out ahead.
At the door of the vault, however, Badger turned back for a moment, to say, with vicious assurance: