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Rh a position beneath the lighted window, where the detective straightened and peered through the ragged hole in the shade.

Only two men were visible in the room, the older one whom Miller had described and a stranger. The latter was gesticulating excitedly, and fragments of his speech reached Odell's ears.

"I told him a week, sir Yes, he seemed to, but you can't tell about those bulls But where to, sir? There's still the difficulty about passports Oh, Honolulu. Yes, I can get the baggage out providing they are not watching the place."

The older man leaned forward and spoke rapidly in an indistinguishable tone; and Odell saw the other glance quickly toward the front of the shop and then back at the speaker with a look of horror on his face.

"Good God, no!" he cried; and the deference was gone from his tone. "I've helped in the other thing, and I'll admit that you've paid me well for it; but I wouldn't be a party to that for all the money in the world! I don't care if it is, I'd rather do a stretch than go to the chair!"

Before the older man could speak the door leading into the shop opened, and Gene appeared.

"We're caught!" he cried wildly. "Either Sims or I must have been followed, Farley! There's a man walking up and down in front of the shop."

"Shut that door, you d—n fool!" Farley Drew finished up with a ferocious oath; but the other, whom Gene had called Sims, shouldered the young man aside and sprang through the door into the shop, while Drew himself strode over to the window.