Wake him up, my lad; will you ?" "Wait a minute," said the youth, and left the window.

Presently he opened the front door, slipped gently out and closed the door behind him.
"Let's sit in your car," he said, in soft, quiet tones.

"We can talk more freely there." "But I must see Fogerty at once!" protested Arthur.
"I'm Fogerty." "Q.

Fogerty ?" "Quintus Fogerty--the first and last and only individual of that name." Arthur hesitated; he was terribly disappointed.
"Are you a detective ?" he enquired.
"By profession." "But you can't be very old." The boy laughed.
"I'm no antiquity, sir," said he, "but I've shed the knickerbockers long ago.

Who sent you to me ?" "Why do you ask ?" "I'm tired.