CHAPTER X.
CAUGHT AND ESCAPED.
After the policemen had departed with their prisoners, Nick Carter tore off his disguise and left the building.
He found Tambourine Jack waiting for him, and, telling the youth to follow, the detective went through an alleyway that led to the courtyard, into which Elmer Greer had leaped.
There he was, stretched on the cold stones, his pale face upturned.
He was not dead—far from it.
“You have got me at last,” he moaned, when Nick Carter bent over him.
“I thought you were killed.”
“I would have been, only I struck on some telegraph wires,” replied the fellow; “they broke my fall.”
Nick raised him to his feet and Elmer uttered an exclamation of pain.
“Any bones broken?”