If you keel over now, you'll be found out sure....

It's all right.

You'll not be hurt.

There----" A heavy thumping on the door by which Lane had entered and a loud authoritative voice from the hall silenced him.
"Open up here! You're pinched!" That voice Lane recognized as belonging to Chief of Police Bell.

For a moment, fraught with suspense, Lane was at a loss to know what to do.
"Open up! We've got the place surrounded....