After that, it's up to all of you to look out for yourselves." "Remember, Inspector," pleaded Steamboat Dan, "you gave your word that me an' Bill an' the gang ain't to be collared." "Don't fear; the only one I'm after is the Russian.

Jump sharp now, and give them the office to screw." Steamboat Dan entered the drain while Inspector Val, Richard, Mr.Duff, and Mr.England withdrew to a little distance.
"Everybody goes free except the Russian," was Inspector Val's command to Mr.Duff and Mr.England; "he's to be nailed." From the drain came booming the smothered report of a pistol.
"That's the signal," said Inspector Val; "the noise of a gun will travel miles in a tunnel.

They'll be coming out now." As he spoke, Steamboat Dan issued from the drain and fled like a shadow.
A rattle of anchor chains was heard aboard the _Zulu Queen_; she also had taken fright.
"The others won't be here for a while," said Inspector Val.

"They've got a good ways to come, and a pitch-dark drain isn't the Bowery." Something like ten minutes passed; suddenly, cursing and stumbling and splashing, five men rushed from the drain's mouth and made off into the darkness.
"Close up now," cried Inspector Val; "our party should be hard on their heels." Inspector Val was wrong; ten minutes, twenty minutes elapsed, and no one to emerge from the drain.

Inspector Val, placing his two aids on guard, said that he and Richard would investigate.