Satisfied by this display of knowledge, the fellow unfastened the chain and Shadow glided in. I sprang out from behind the pillar which had concealed me, and forced my way in just as Shadow clapped a revolver to the villain's head.
"Give an alarm at your peril!" hissed Shadow, and dragged him away from the door, which I at once swung open and admitted the men.
Handcuffs had been brought in plenty, and the keeper who had opened the door for us soon had a pair of them on his wrists.
Over the building the men scattered with as little noise as possible.
Tige was so wrapped up in her devilish work as to have heard none of the noise that could not be entirely avoided, and she knew not that her sins had found her out, until, in a ringing voice, Shadow cried out:
"Help is here!"
Helen Dilt uttered one sob, and then became very silent.
She was not dead, however.
Shadow sprang to her side even as I secured the tigerish woman, and he said that she had only fainted.
The tenderness of his manner, the way in which he commenced to bathe Helen's face, led me to inquire: