en and a hand grabbed him roughly and pulledhim over the threshold, while the door was quickly closedand barred. The big room in which he now found himself,was lit only by one sputtering candle which -winked and 2S VERTEX. T>OOT>LE blinked upon the wall like the eye of some evil monster.By… … Commp. him. I will drop the basket and run, he thought. Thenhe remembered about the door being locked. Ha, ha, ha! laughed one of the men. So my littlebird would spread his wings and fly, would he? Well, wemust clip those wings then. As he spoke, he clutchedTommy roughly by the shoulder. Now…
