"Did Proctor and Jurgens make the boy a prisoner?" he demanded.
"I know nozzing, m'sieu," replied the creole; "I haf done nozzing wrong."
"Did you——"
Just at that moment a door opened—a door opposite the one leading upon the gallery that overlooked the court.
"Bangs!" shouted Dick, pointing to a wild figure that appeared in the doorway.
With a snarl like that of an angry panther, the figure turned and leaped for an open window. Matt and Dick both sprang in pursuit.
[CHAPTER XI.]
A BLACK MYSTERY.
Bangs, it seemed clear, had entered the other room through a window in the side of the house. The roof of a one-story building came close up under the window, so that it was comparatively easy to enter Rigolette's house in that manner.