Open the door, and come out, and you'll be safe." There was a pause.

Then a gruff voice demanded: "If we open you don't fire on us ?" "Not if you come out with your hands held up high." "All right, then.

Give us time to open the door." The light from the police dark lanterns played on the door as it swung open.

Then two very crestfallen robbers, holding their hands well aloft, came out on the steps.
The windows of the hall, some distance away, had been thrown up.
A lot of white-gowned girls, some with covered heads, and some not, looked wonderingly out at the spot lighted up by the dark lanterns.
Chief Coy and two of his officers quickly entered the bank.

It was ten minutes before they reappeared.
"Somebody has done us the good turn of discovering this thing just in time tonight," announced Coy, with a grave face.