"I suppose Winter told you that.

Was he only assuming the fact, or have there been developments at Croydon ?" "A motor car drove up to the gate openly at ten o'clock this morning.

A police sergeant, jumping to the conclusion that one of his own chiefs or a representative of Scotland Yard was paying the place a visit, incautiously showed himself in the doorway, whereupon the car raced away.

It was an unfortunate and, perhaps, costly blunder, but the man is hardly to be blamed.

The very audacity of the gang is their best safeguard." A luncheon gong clanged in the hall.