"
"I didn't, honest," said Porky. "Couldn't you see I was asleep?
What do you suppose I care about your old patent medicine? So
long as you ain't policemen, let me go. I want to go home!"
"You shall go," said Ledermann, scowling in the direction of
Adolph, "but I am afraid you might follow us and find out about
the medicine. If you stay right here for a while, why, we will
go away, and you will never know to whom you have been talking in
this pitch dark. So we will just get you to do that much for us.
And if you tell any one how you came to be here, or what we have
said to you, we will come back and kill you and kill all your
people!"
He hissed the awful threat in the boy's ear, and shutting off
the flashlight, he took a cord from his pocket, and wound it
tightly around the boy's wrists and ankles, tying it in a
peculiar knot. Then with a handkerchief he gagged him.
"Now," he said to Porky, "you can get that cord off and the gag
out, but you are going to sleep for a little while." He took a
little pill from his pocket and forced it far back in Porky's
mouth. "We will sit outside and watch you a while," said the
spy. He laid the boy down on the floor of the house, propped the
door in place, and all was silent.
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