“All right, Skip.”
They carried the banker from the house and placed him in a grocery wagon that was in waiting, and drove rapidly off.
This move was accomplished without discovery.
Investigation into some cases of the disappearance of rich persons would establish the fact that they were kidnaped.
The gentlemanly rascal did not accompany his friends.
He could trust them; he had often done so before and found that they would not go back on the man who paid them well.
The pair were members of the gang that Elmer had organized, and without taking active part in their crimes, he was their acknowledged leader.
It seems strange that an organized gang of nearly two hundred ruffians could exist long in the great metropolis, but Elmer Greer’s did until they were—but that is anticipating.
Returning to the apartment where he had left his wife, he said:
“Louise, you must leave here.”