"I am a detective from Scotland Yard," and he took a small blue card from his pocket.
"And what do you suppose we are ?" asked the Professor, and threw up his arms.
"You," said the Secretary stiffly, "are, as I know for a fact, members of the Supreme Anarchist Council.

Disguised as one of you, I--" Dr.Bull tossed his sword into the sea.
"There never was any Supreme Anarchist Council," he said.

"We were all a lot of silly policemen looking at each other.

And all these nice people who have been peppering us with shot thought we were the dynamiters.
I knew I couldn't be wrong about the mob," he said, beaming over the enormous multitude, which stretched away to the distance on both sides.
"Vulgar people are never mad.

I'm vulgar myself, and I know.