Slowly, carefully, inch by inch, he raised the casement, straddled the sill a moment, gun in hand, then dropped softly to the room beyond. He paused a tense moment, listening, every nerve and muscle on the alert. He was impelled forward immediately by the necessity of speed. He had to locate Ruby at once. When Hesterberg struck, he struck surely and swiftly. He negotiated the basement rooms of the house successfully, felt his way to the flight of steps that led upward. Pushing his gun before him he mounted swiftly, came out a moment later onto a small landing on the main floor. Darkness! No lights, no sounds! For a panic stricken moment the Phantom thought that he was too late; thought that Ruby had left the house by the front while he was effecting his unlawful entrance through the basement window. Then a harsh, grating sound set his teeth on edge. The breath whistled sharply through his nostrils and his finger constricted on the trigger of his gun. But a moment later as his jumpy nerves settled, he smiled grimly to himself with satisfaction.
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