They returned his query with a stare.
"There wasn't any mass meeting that we know of," they said.
He rapped upon the table and nodded to the uniformed attendant.
"You know what to do," he said.
Evidently the attendant did; for after a short space of time he unlocked the door, and six plain-clothesmen pounced upon the spokesman.
"But I didn't do it!" yelled the big man who had handed over the ferocious-looking gun.
"He didn't do it!" cried the other men behind.
"Aw, come on!" said the officer of the law, "we'll lock the whole kit an' boodle of you up as witnesses. What—you won't? Come on—Come on!"
"But don't you forget that we furnished information," called back the spokesman, "that may lead to the conviction of somebody, and when that happens, we want that ten, y'see?"