She, too, was apparently brimming with excitement, and her pretty and vivacious face puckered itself into a frown as the policeman smiled and shook his head.
"Oh, I say, what's that for ?" exclaimed Dick Bewery.

"Shut up ?--what a lot of rot! I say!--can't you let us go in--just for a minute ?" "Not for a pension, sir!" answered the policeman good-naturedly.

"Don't you see the notice?
The Dean 'ud have me out of the force by tomorrow if I disobeyed orders.

No admittance, nowhere, nohow! But lor' bless yer!" he added, glancing at the two young people.

"There's nothing to see--nothing!--as Dr.Bryce there can tell you." Dick, who knew nothing of the recent passages between his guardian and the dismissed assistant, glanced at Bryce with interest.
"You were on the spot first, weren't you ?" he asked: "Do you think it really was murder ?" "I don't know what it was," answered Bryce.