Now there happens something more inexplicable still.

You are arrested, and you are not arrested.

Your identity is known, and Captain Griffiths is forbidden to do his duty." "It seems puzzling, does it not ?" Lessingham agreed.

"I shouldn't worry about the first, but this last little episode takes some explaining." "If anything further happens this evening, I think I shall go mad," Philippa sighed.
"And something is going to happen," Lessingham declared, rising to his feet.

"Did you hear that ?" Above even the roar of the wind they heard the brazen report of a gun from almost underneath the window.