Go tell Caroline what I've said," he went on to the girl.
"Let her know that they's no chain on anybody, and, if she wants to find Bill Gregg, all she's got to do is go across the street.

You understand ?" "But, even if I were to tell her, how could she go, Ronicky Doone, when she's watched ?" "If she can't make a start and get to a man that loves her and is waiting for her, right across the street, she ain't worth worrying about," said Ronicky sternly.

"Do we go this way ?" She hurried before them.

"You've waited too long--you've waited too long!" she kept whispering in her terror, as she led them through the door, paused to turn out the light behind her, and then conducted them down a passage like that on the other side of the treasure chamber.
It was all deadly black and deadly silent, but the rustling of the girl's dress, as she hurried before them, was their guide.

And always her whisper came back: "Hurry! Hurry! I fear it is too late!" Suddenly they were climbing up a narrow flight of steps.