So let me go out and look around, will you, Bill?
Then I'll come back and tell you what I've decided." Once in the street Ronicky looked dubiously across at the opposite house.

He realized that more than an hour had passed since Caroline had left John Mark's house.

What had happened to Ruth in that hour?
The front of the house was lighted in two or three windows, but those lights could tell him nothing.

From the inside of the house he could locate Ruth's room again, but from the outside it was impossible for him to do it.
The whole house, of course, was thoroughly guarded against his attack, for attack they knew he would.

The only question was from what angle he would deliver his assault.