Why not in this place so central, so quiet, where he come and go by the front or the back at all hours, when in the very vast of the traffic there is none to notice.

We shall go there and search that house.

And when we learn what it holds, then we do what our friend Arthur call, in his phrases of hunt 'stop the earths' and so we run down our old fox, so?
Is it not ?" "Then let us come at once," I cried, "we are wasting the precious, precious time!" The Professor did not move, but simply said, "And how are we to get into that house in Piccadilly ?" "Any way!" I cried.

"We shall break in if need be." "And your police?
Where will they be, and what will they say ?" I was staggered, but I knew that if he wished to delay he had a good reason for it.

So I said, as quietly as I could, "Don't wait more than need be.