The eye piece was
in Room 511. Then he started to brush up the pieces of plaster on
the floor.
"Craig," I whispered hastily as I heard an elevator door,
"someone's coming!"
He hurried to the door and looked. "There they are," he said, as
we saw Elaine and Mary rounding the corner of the hall.
Across the hall, although we did not know it at the time, in room
540, already, Long Sin had taken up his station, just to be handy.
There he had been with his servant, playing with his two trained
white rats.
Long placed them up his capacious sleeves and carefully opened the
door to look out. Unfortunately he, was just in time to see the
door of 509 open and disclose us.
His subtle glance detected our presence without our knowing it.
Hastily picking up the brace and bit and the rest of the debris,
and with a last look at the detectascope, which was hardly
noticeable, even if one already knew it was there, we hurried into
511 and shut the door.
Kennedy mounted a chair and applied his eye to the detectascope.
Just then Mary and Elaine entered the next room, Mary opening the
door with a regular key.
"Won't you step in?" she asked.
Elaine did so and Mary hesitated in the hall. Long Sin had slipped
out on noiseless feet and taken refuge behind some curtains. As he
saw her alone, he beckoned to Mary.
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