After that he was taken on by some one in a motor-car.

Colonel Renshaw wanted me to allude to the matter from the bench, but it seemed to me that it was an affair entirely for the police." As though suddenly realising the unexpected interest which his words had caused, Lord Saxthorpe brought his sentence to a conclusion and glanced enquiringly around the table.
"A man could scarcely disappear in a civilised neighbourhood like this," Mr.Fentolin remarked quietly, "but there is a certain amount of coincidence about your question.

May I ask whether it was altogether a haphazard one ?" "Absolutely," Lord Saxthorpe declared.

"The idea seems to be that the fellow was brought to one of the houses in the neighbourhood, and we were all rather chaffing one another this morning about it.

Inspector Yardley--the stout fellow with the beard, you know--was just starting off in his dog-cart to make enquiries round the neighbourhood.