McGuire held the spike and Grady and I knocked it in.

Having packed the contents of this in a carpet-bag, we broke open another safe, the contents of which we also packed away.

The reason we did not get out after passing Harlem Bridge was because we discovered, after getting into the car, that the rope was in an iron tube, and that prevented our stopping the car.
[Illustration: "_We pried the safe open._"] "At Coscob Station we got out and hid one of the bags in a pile of lumber.

We then walked up the track a mile toward Stamford, where we hid in a stone wall the large carpet-bag.

The three of us then, unincumbered, walked to Stamford.