"To you alone?"
"Yes."
"He already is on your track for this crime."
"I'll foil him yet! Leave him to me alone!" Cervera fiercely cried. "Be off by the back stairs, then through the stable and the side alley. Go to your own home, and from there signal Kilgore to have the secret way to the plant open for me. Here—the paper! Take it away with you! I'll elude Carter—"
"But he may arrest you at once," protested Venner, excitedly. "If he does—"
"Caramba! do you stop to question?" Cervera furiously interrupted. "If he takes me from this house he will take me—dead!"
"But—"
"Quick—he's at the door! Leave him to me alone, and do what I told you! Away! There's the bell!"
Venner caught up his coat, darted down the back stairs and quickly departed by the way mentioned.
At the same time, while Nick's summons was still echoing through the great house, Sanetta Cervera swept haughtily through the main hall, switched on the electric light, and then opened the front door.