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I've got Sunger, got the papers back, and caught the robber, too. At least I think he must be the safe-cracker, though I can't be sure. I've got him right! Sunger, old boy, we worked the trick to perfection!" Jack thrust the strangely-recovered package into his pocket, and then gave more attention to the man.
It was the man whose name he did not know, but whose face he had reason enough to know too well it was the leader of the Crime Club. The man, though evidently badly wounded, smiled defiantly in spite of his pain. "So you're the Gray Seal!" he flung out contemptuously. "A clever enough safe-cracker but only a lowbrow, like the rest of them. Another illusion dispelled!
If you even so much as hummed, they took you out and shut you up in a dark hole called the "cooler"! Nor could you read, for there was no light in your cell, and perpetual twilight in the central gathering place of the "tank". Apparently the only things the authorities of Leesville wished you to do were to hunt "seam-squirrels", to smoke cigarettes, to "shoot craps", and to make the acquaintance of a variety of interesting young criminals, so that when you were ready to resume your outside life you might decide whether you wanted to be a hold-up man, a safe-cracker, a forger, or a second-story operator.
"Got his story? Of course he got it. And in another four hours that safe-cracker would have drilled right into our vitals. I tell you we can't imperil our institution this way. We can't let that stuff get out. We can't do it!" "Nobody's going to break your nice new bank, Obed! You run down here in a taxi and we'll try to straighten things out." "But what'll I do with Trotter?
How're we ever going to hold him in?" "Where's your safe-cracker man?" "We've got him right here! Burns is sending over an A. B. P. A. man to take care of him." "D'you mean he's hurt?" "No, no! We've identified him as Missouri Horton of the Scott Gang he got a Sing Sing life sentence for yegg work in Yonkers.
The steel door was connected with the indicator, and the needle spun around until it indicated a pressure such as only a strong man could have exerted. Comparing the marks made in the steel in the experiment and by the safe-cracker, it was evident that no such pressure had been necessary. Apparently the lock on the door was only a trifling affair, and the steel itself was not very, tough.
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