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 the room that brought the thought of Shindler sweeping back into her memory.

Wilsnach followed her glance. And he too came back to realities.

"But what happened here?" he demanded.

"I tailed that boob to this dump, and got into his room when he thought it was a bell-hop at the door. Then he tried to put me under wit' a couple o' knock-out drops."

"That cur!" said Wilsnach. "I'll make him pay for that!"

"How'll yuh make him pay for it?" demanded Sadie, "He's given us both the slip."

"Given us both the slip!" exclaimed Wilsnach. "Not on your life! He walked right into my arms on those stairs!"

"He what?"

"And I had the irons on him before he so much as got his breath!"

Sadie stared at her feet again.

"Then where'd yuh leave him?"

Wilsnach could not even guess as to the source of her alarm.

"Why, I locked him in the clothes-closet of that