“No!” shouted Hamilton; “there’ll be more in him than in anything else. Take him with us.”
Then he added, in a lower tone:
“Side door, boys. Nobody seems to be there. They’ve forgotten the side door!”
He seized the governor as he spoke, and pushed him from the room.
Others helped, and both the governor and Leonard were hustled out.
All the things on the table—money and papers—were swept off by somebody.
A door crashed in, and next instant Nick Carter leaped into the room.
He was greeted by a pistol shot from one of the ruffians.
It missed him.