“Who told you?”
“I guessed it. My assistant has been here, and he wouldn’t stay in such a place, either, unless there was business in it. The business that brought Patsy here was——”
Nick did not finish.
Instead, he caught up a newspaper and held it in front of Dinsmore.
“Read it!” he whispered, “and don’t show your face!”
Four men were coming in from the street.
One of them was the man whom Nick had known as George Snell.
As the detective was now disguised, he did not hesitate to show his face.
It looked, however, as if his disguise would have been unnecessary, for Snell walked quickly across the room and out by a door at the back.
One of the four went with him.