“Who is he?”
“He is a detective’s ‘cub,’ that’s what he is, and he was sent here to ‘pipe’ us.”
“But we heard the cat, that part of his story was true.”
“You think so?”
“We heard the cat.”
“But you didn’t see him, did you?”
CHAPTER III.
While the conversation we have recorded was in progress the man led our hero upstairs and Ike beheld a strong room, a place where it was evident prisoners had been confined. There was a regular steel chair in the room. The boy took in the situation at a glance. Once in that steel wire chair and he was a goner. Indeed, it was one of the most ingenious contrivances he had ever beheld, and only a lad of his wide experience would have discerned its use, and with the rapidity with which thought can act he went over all the possibilities.
He had ceased to offer resistance and the man said:
“Come, sonny, I am going to let you sit down in that nice chair.”