Oh, I'll say it's a Coney Island maze, this building! But just what these young rakes want....

Come on, and be careful.
It'll be dark and the stairs are steep." At the end of the short hall Pepper opened a door, and led Lane down steep steps in thick darkness, to another hall, dimly lighted by a window opening upon the street.
"You'll have to make a bluff at playing poker, unless my butting in with you causes a row," said Pepper, as he walked along.

Presently he came to a door upon which he knocked several times.

But before it was opened footsteps and voices sounded down the hall in the opposite direction from which Pepper had escorted Lane.
"Guess they're just coming.

Hard luck," said Pepper.