No other door gave exit from the music room.

There were no hangings, except the door-curtains, and there was no furniture behind which a child could hide unseen.

Yet Hade was no longer there.
Roke laid aside his violin, at sight of Gavin and the Jap.

At the former's exclamation of amaze, two more of the Secret Service men left their post at the front door and ran in.

The tramp of their hurrying feet made the guards outside the open windows of the music room fling wide the closed shutters.
Clearly, Hade had not escaped past them.
Folding his arms, and grinning impudently at the astounded cordon of faces, Roke drawled: "I just dropped in to say 'Howdy' to Mr.Standish.