With a look of evil triumph on his dark face, the man seized the boy,
dragged him into the room and his wife locked the door.

La Croix bound and gagged Harry.

"Got zem both!" he chuckled.

"What are you going to do with them, Paul?" demanded his wife.

"Do wiz zem? Put zem out of ze way, my dear. Dispose of zem so effectually
zat we not weel be trouble wiz zem again."

The woman met his evil glance and shuddered.

She saw what murderous thoughts were filling his mind.




CHAPTER VI.

TWO MEN IN A BOX.


On the following morning Paul La Croix went upstairs to the man who made
artificial flowers and said to him:

"Monsieur Reynard, to-day ve go avay to Europe. I 'ave some sings een ze
rooms ve occupy zat I weesh to send to a friend een Sacramento. To do so, I
must 'ave wong beeg packing case. I see an empty wong standing over zere