"She is sound asleep; I cannot waken her now," whispered Leah Einstein.

"Then help me to carry her upstairs.
You must not leave her for an instant till I am done." Meyer sprang into the room, and in five minutes returned with a grin upon his hardened face.

"Leah is safely locked in the second story.

Fear will keep her mouth shut, and she can quiet the other light-headed fool." The temporary eclipse of the gambling-rooms gave the disguised criminal an opportunity to work in perfect safety.
With lightning rapidity he had examined all the spoil of his victim's pockets.

A horrid silence had settled down over the deserted old mansion.
In his stocking feet the scoundrel stole down-stairs, and there toiled alone, with the inanimate thing, once a stalwart man, lying there helpless and prone in death before him.
"The chloroform finished him!" muttered Meyer, as he sought fresh air from an open grating leading into a sunken window opening.