nearly midnight before
Philip would pay him handsomely for bringing the car back to Cape May . The reason that Philip Holt had sent back Roy Dennis 's automobile was because he knew that Roy would put detectives on his track if he failed to return it . Besides , it would be far easier for Philip Holt to get away with his precious iron safe if he were free of all other entanglements . It was nearly midnight before the story that the chauffeur told was clear to Tom Curtis . The man believed that he knew the very house in which Tania was probably concealed . There was no other place like it near the town where the chauffeur lived . Tom got out his own automobile .