Mr.Cromering intimated to the innkeeper that he had finished questioning him, and would like to examine the waiter, Charles.
"If you wouldn't mind pulling the bell-rope behind you, sir," hinted the innkeeper.
In response to a pull at the old-fashioned bell-rope, the stout country servant, who had been washing greens in the kitchen, entered the room.
"Where is Charles, Ann ?" asked the innkeeper.
"He's in the kitchen," replied the woman nervously.
"Then tell him he is wanted here immediately." "You run your inn in a queer sort of way, Benson," remarked Superintendent Galloway, in his loud voice, as the woman went away on her errand.

"Why couldn't Charles have answered the bell himself, if he is in the kitchen?
What does he wait on, if not the bar parlour ?" "Charles is stone deaf, sir," replied the innkeeper..