darkness and silence.

The door had yielded to the scientific sledge-hammering where it
would have shattered, otherwise, all the axes in the department.
What was next?

Garrick jumped briskly over the wreckage into the building.
Instead of the lights and gayety which we had seen on the previous
night, all was black mystery. The robbers' cave yawned before us.
I think we were all prepared for some sort of gunplay, for we knew
the crooks to be desperate characters. As we followed Garrick
closely we were surprised to encounter not even physical force.

Someone struck a light. Garrick, groping about in the shadows,
found the switch, and one after another the lights in the various
rooms winked up.

I have seldom seen such confusion as greeted us as, with Dillon
waiving his "John Doe" warrant over his head, we hurried upstairs
to the main hall on the second floor, where the greater part of
the gambling was done. Furniture was overturned and broken, and
there had been no time to remove the heavier gambling apparatus.
Playing cards, however, chips, racing sheets from the afternoon,
dice, everything portable and tangible and small enough to be
carried had disappeared.

But the greatest surprise of all was in store. Though we had seen
no one leave by any of the doors, nor by the doors of any of the
houses on the block, nor by the roofs, or even by the back yard,
according to the report of the police who had been sent in that