“I was taking no chances by falling short of my duty,” put in Vic, with a cruel laugh.
“They’d have killed him for sure, Vic, if his head were not as tough and hard as a darky’s.”
“He would then have been out of our way, at all events.”
“Conley will soon have him revived, I think, and then we will have a talk with him, and force him to confess what is being done against us,” added Badger, approaching the automobile. “I’ll stow the machine while you two go in and eat your dinner. It’s already on the table.”
“Had yours?”
“Yes.”
“Send Jerry in here to tell us when his patient revives,” called Vic Clayton, as she mounted the steps. “I want to go out there and have a look at him.”
“All right,” growled Badger, as he sprang into the car.
Then the two women entered the house.
In another moment the car started again with a whir and rumble, and Patsy mentally sized up the situation as he saw it.