"Someone has entered the room. There is a light which sounds just
like an electric flashlight which is being moved about. They
haven't switched on the electric light. Now, if I were
sufficiently expert I think I could tell by the varying sounds at
just what that fellow is flashing the light. There, something
passed directly between the light and the box. Yes, there must be
two of them--that was the shadow of a human being, all right. They
are over in the corner by the safe, now. The fellow with the
flashlight is bending down. I can tell, because the other fellow
walked between the light and the box and the light must be held
very low, for I heard the shadows of both of his legs."
Garrick was apparently waiting only until the intruders, whoever
they were, were busily engaged in their search before he gave the
alarm and hurried over in an attempt to head off their escape by
their secret means of entrance.
"Tom," he cried, as he listened attentively, "call up the
apartment over there and get that hall-boy.
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