Fortunately he and another man made a five-minute point at each end of the mansions, and, as No.

1 failed to turn up, No.

2 went to look for him.

He saw the end of the row, and ran to help, blowing his whistle for assistance.
Unfortunately for us, two of the three confounded blackguards escaped." "O, you've got one, then ?" cried Theydon.
"Yes, a Jap.

The constable was wise enough to give him the point of his truncheon in the gullet, and that settled him." "I wonder if he is the one who would have been shot had he broken into my flat," said Theydon musingly.
"Shot! Man alive, you'd never have heard him!" "Not till he had a bullet lodged securely in his inside, it is true.
Bates and I surveyed that lift last night, Mr.Furneaux, and regarded it as the weak part of our defenses, so we arranged that an automatic pistol should live up to its name, and fire at any one who opened the sliding panel." "Did you now ?" said Furneaux admiringly.