If only they think you're out they'll probably content themselves by breaking up your stuff--" "The indicator said In," said Bensington.
"The devil it did! Well, anyhow, I'd better not be found--" He vanished with a slam of the door.
Bensington was left to his own initiative again.
It took him under the bed.
There presently he was found by Cossar.
Bensington was almost comatose with terror when he was found, for Cossar had burst the door in with his shoulder by jumping at it across the breadth of the passage.
"Come out of it, Bensington," he said.

"It's all right.

It's me.

We've got to get out of this.

They're setting the place on fire.