Could he have seen you ?" Hillyard shook his head.
"I think not." "Oh, we'll get him, of course.

He can't escape from the country.

And we will get him pretty soon," Graham declared.

He looked out of the window on to the river.

"I wonder what in the world alarmed him, since it wasn't you ?" he speculated slowly.
But both Scotland Yard and Commodore Graham were out of their reckoning for once.