Jimmy opened the door and led the way to
the back-porch, where the injured man, who had just recovered
consciousness, was sitting limply in a chair.
"What does all this mean? Are you hurt?" asked the Doctor
as he examined Mr. Jones's victim.
"No, I think I'm all right now," was the reply; "but that
scoundrel certainly gave me a severe blow."
Billy, shut up in the bath-room and listening to all the
noise and confusion, had been scared nearly out of his
senses. He had kept as still as a mouse till now, when,
thinking he heard friendly voices he yelled out, "Open the
do' an' untie me."
"We done forgot Billy," said the little rescuer, as he ran
to the bath-room door and opened it. He was followed by the
Doctor, who cut the cords that bound the prisoner.
"Now, William," commanded Doctor Sanford as they grouped
themselves around the stout, plump gentleman in the chair,
"begin at the beginning, and let us get at the bottom of
this affair."
"Mr. Algernon Jones he come to the gate," explained the little
boy, "an' he say he goin' to fix the water pipe an' he say he's
a plumber.
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