Peg bit her lip till the blood came.
"And you think—do you think ... they are ... waiting for him?"
"That was what it sounded like from the talk."
"Who told you?"
"The landlord of the Green Man overheard and sent for me."
Peg groaned. Her love for Forrester exaggerated the possible danger a thousandfold. She suffered tortures as they drove through the dark streets; and when at last the cab stopped close to the closed gates of Heeler's factory she flung herself from it headlong.
But the whole building was in darkness, and when she shook the padlocked gates with frantic hands they yielded nothing.
The cabman was staring at her curiously, and Peg came back to consciousness of her surroundings with a little gasping laugh.
She looked at Farrow.