Kilgore paid but little attention to any of this, and only now and then bestowed a glance upon the vicious woman.
Within a minute after their arrival at the plant, the gang had Nick securely bound to a common wooden chair, when they condescended to remove the gag from his mouth.
"He may shout himself hoarse here, if he likes," growled Kilgore. "There will be none to hear him."
Then he hurried Pylotte and Matt Stall back to the Venner house, to land Chick Carter.
Left alone with Nick, Cervera darted to the stone door in the solid wall, and secured it within.
There was murder in her glittering eyes when she shot the heavy bolts into their iron sockets.
CHAPTER XX.
THE BOOT ON THE OTHER LEG.
In the heat of action and excitement ten minutes are as nothing.