MR.

BASCOMB IS PEEVISH At the first blush of dawn Tom despatched the tireless Nicolas to Blixton to notify the police of the explosions and of the disappearance of Harry Hazelton.
Two men in blue, wearing stars on their coats, came over within an hour, walked about and looked wise until noon.

They discovered nothing whatever, and their theories did not strike Reade as being worthy of attention.
As soon as possible the divers were sent down at the two wrecked parts of the retaining wall.

These men reported that the breaches extended ten feet beneath the surface at some points; only eight feet at other points.
The foundations of the walls were reported as being secure.

Then Tom, under the directions of two divers, put on a diver's suit and went down himself, for the first time in his life.