He
rode up with the stretcher. The other one must have walked up."
"Do you know him? Has he ever been here before?"
"I can't say, sir. I didn't see him. At least, sir, when I heard
the screams I ran in from the elevator, which the other one told
me to wait with--left the door open. Just as I ran in, they dodged
out past me, jumped into the car and rode down. I guess they must
have had the engine of the ambulance motor running, sir, if they
got away without you seeing them."
We were too late to head them from speeding off. But, at least, we
had saved the Senorita. She was terribly upset by the attack, much
shaken, but really all right.
"Have you any idea who it could be?" asked Craig as the faithful
Juanita cared for her.
"I don't know the man who was waiting and 'Nita never saw him,
either," she replied. "The one who jumped out from behind the
portieres had on a mask and a false beard. But I didn't recognize
anything about him."
Sudden as the attack had been and serious as might have been the
outcome, we could not but feel happy that it had been frustrated.
Yet it seemed that some one ought to be delegated to see that such
a thing could not occur again.
"We must think up some means of protecting you," soothed Kennedy.
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