"Where's Sercomb?" whispered Matt, peering around.
"What's he got to do with this?"
Just at that moment Sercomb's voice came up from below.
"What's going on up there? Anything happened, Dick?"
"Two men came in and made trouble for us!" shouted Matt. "Didn't you hear 'em run down the stairs?"
"No, I didn't hear anybody!" answered Sercomb.
"Take a look around, and we'll see what we can find up here."
During this brief colloquy, Ferral and Carl were staring at Matt in open-mouthed astonishment.
Matt whirled to Ferral.
"Not a word to Sercomb about that hole in the wall," he whispered. "Tell me quick, what happened in here?"