He asked him if James, James, had seen Elizabeth, and he said that she had started towards his home when a man in black with a black mask on jumped on the car, knocked him out, gagged and blindfolded Elizabeth and went toward the lower part of the city. Without going into the cab, Hugh and the chauffeur got on a taxi and went to the place where James had stopped. When the cab came to a standstill, Hugh knew that this was the place where Elizabeth had last been seen. On jumping out of the taxi, Hugh saw drops of water, and when he had shown them to James, it was then that he remembered that the car that had driven that afternoon had a leak in the radiator, so they told the cab driver to follow the water drops, which he did, and the two men found themselves in the alley of an apartment house within ten minutes. Hugh sent James to police headquarters for two policemen, while he looked around for an entrance. Seeing some steps leading to a small floor, he ventured to enter. 