When we get on to the Terrace, with closed houses on one side and a palisade upon the other, I am going to say something to you." "Very well," Tavernake decided, reluctantly.

"I don't know what there is you can have to tell me, but I'll come as far as there, at any rate." They crossed the Strand and turned into Adam Street.

As they neared the further corner, Pritchard stepped from the pavement into the middle of the street, and looked searchingly around.
"Say, you'll excuse my being a little careful," he remarked.

"This is rather a lonely part for the middle of London, and I have been followed for the last two days by people whose company I am not over keen about." "Followed?
What for ?" Tavernake demanded.
"Oh, the usual thing!" answered the detective, with a shrug of the shoulders.

"That company of crooks I showed you last night don't fancy having me around.