Hurry up, beat it!" Fido Norton hurried to the police station in back of Ezra Corbett's store and aroused Officer Dopeson who was at the desk waiting for out-of-town speeders to be brought in.

In a kind of waking dream the officer heard an excited voice shout, "Mr.Ned Garrison's car is stolen from the shed down by the lake." When Officer Dopeson was fully aware of this noisy intrusion, the intruder had disappeared.

He lost no time, however, in setting the usual machinery in motion.

By a continuous series of movements of the receiver rack on the telephone he aroused Miss Dolly Bobbitt, the night operator, from the depths of the novel she was reading, and notified the Police Department in East Ketchem across the lake to be on watch for the car.
The police department over there said that he would be glad to do that.
The police departments of Conner's Junction and Rocky Hollow were also notified.
A long distance call to the New York police warned them to be on the lookout.

Blinksboro, on the main road, did not answer.