Instead, however, of turning and pulling up on the laboratory side
of the street, Thomas stopped opposite it. He got out and Elaine,
thinking that perhaps it was to save time that he had not turned
the car around, followed.
But when the valet, instead of crossing the street, went up to a
door of a house and rang the bell, she began to suspect that all
was not as it should be.
"What are you going here for, Thomas?" she asked. "There's the
laboratory--over there."
"But, Miss Dodge," he apologized, "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Bennett are
here. They told me they'd be here."
The door was opened quickly by a lookout of the Clutching Hand and
the valet asked if Craig and Elaine's lawyer were in. Of course
the lookout replied that they were and, before Elaine knew it, she
was jostled into the dark hallway and the door was banged shut.
Resistance was useless now and she was hurried along until another
door was opened.
There she saw LeCroix and the other crooks.
And, as the door slammed, she caught sight of the fearsome
Clutching Hand himself.
She drew back, but was too frightened even to scream.
With a harsh, cruel laugh, the super-criminal beckoned to her to
follow him and look down through a small trap door.
Unable now to resist, she looked.
There she saw us. To that extent the valet had told the truth.
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