"Mr. Daley, you are a brave man!"
CHAPTER XXVII
THE POISONED DARTS
It was after a brief, hurried conversation that Dave and Daley began an inspection of their surroundings.
"You ask what next?" said Dave, stirring about to ease his cramped limbs and snapping a match. "I think we had first better learn the condition of the enemy."
"Hey, don't do that, lad!" called out Daley quickly, as Dave moved as if to open the barred door and peer out.
"There's no other way of finding out what we want to know," said Dave.
"Yes, there is!" declared Daley. "I just saw a ladder in a corner here. It leads to the roof, I think."
"Try it and see," suggested Dave, which they did.
"All right," announced Daley, as they came out on a square roof like a platform, "we can get a famous idea of the rights of things from here."