Now, then, what is it ?" "Why," said Diggory, "it's this (I didn't want the other chaps to hear, because then it'll prove who's the spy).

You say the last time you went down to throw some crackers over the wall they were all lying in wait for you.

Well, let you and me go into the boot-room when Noaks is at work there, and pretend to make a plan as though we were going to do it again to-morrow night; then two of us might go down and see if they're prepared.

If so, it must have been Noaks who told them, because no one else knows about it.

I'll go for one, and Jack Vance'll go for another.
I'll tell him to keep it dark, and you can let us in and out of the door." "Oh--ah!" said Acton, "that isn't a bad idea; at all events we'll try it." The project was put into immediate execution.