"Such resistance will be fatal evidence against us.

Better open the door and put a bold face upon it." "Too late!" was just whispered back, when the door flew open with a crash, and the body of the man who had thrown himself against it with a force greatly beyond the resistance, fell inward upon the floor.

At the same instant, Lyon exclaimed, in a quick, savage voice-- "Back, instantly, or you are dead men!" There was such a will in the words he uttered, that, for a moment, the men, four in number, fell back from the open door, and in that instant Lyon sprung past them, and, ere they could recover themselves, was beyond their reach.

His friend made an attempt to follow, but was seized and made prisoner.

The time spent in securing him was so much of a diversion in favour of Lyon, who succeeded in getting into the street, ere the alarm extended to the lower part of the house, and passing beyond immediate observation.