"Gone out; I don't know where. What have you been doing up here?"
"I have been robbed of my money by the fellow you call Lynch; and I only want to get hold of him," I replied.
"That won't go down here," said Glynn, shaking his head.
"Well, I shall go down, any how."
"Not yet, till I see what you have been about here," added he, as he took me by the wrist, and walked in the direction from which I had just come.
Fully persuaded that I should make nothing by resistance, I determined to await my opportunity, rather than spend my strength in a useless battle, in which I was liable to have my head broken. He led me to the room I had just left, the door of which was open. The splintered door-frame betrayed my operations at once.
"Did you do that?" demanded Glynn, savagely.
"I did."
"Then you are the chap I've been looking for," said he, squeezing my wrist till the bones crackled.
"Lynch snatched my money, and then locked me into the room, while he ran away. That's the whole story."