After that, Mr.Handyside came, and accompanied me here, with a detective sitting next the driver, and my husband and Evelyn have told me something of the extraordinary things which have been going on in London while I was gadding about at Eastbourne." "Was the detective a man named Furneaux ?" inquired Theydon.
Mrs.Forbes hesitated, and her husband answered for her, as he alone, among the members of the household, had met the Jersey man.
"No," he said.

"He belonged to the Croydon force, and was sent as an escort.

Furneaux seems to have been swallowed alive since three o'clock.
Everybody is inquiring for him, and no one appears to know anything about him." "I wonder whether Wong Li Fu is aware I have been liberated ?" said Mrs.
Forbes.

"It's rather odd, is it not, that nothing has been heard from him or his gang if I was to be held a prisoner in order to extort terms ?" "I fancy he meant to add significance to his demand for a reply by advertisement in tomorrow's Times," said Forbes.

"You see, Helena, he meant to carry off Evelyn as well as you." Mrs.Forbes smiled again at that.
"What in the world should each of us have thought if we had both been bound and gagged in that car ?" she cried.
"I know what I think," said her husband emphatically.