"It was imprudent and foolish in the last degree.

You have alarmed them exceedingly." "Oh, that's all tosh!" replied the other rudely.

"They were bound to hear of it sooner or later; why, everybody on the front is talking about it.

I thought you'd be awfully bucked to hear the news, seeing that you were sitting at the next table to him yesterday morning." "Who gave you this information ?" asked Colwyn, who had just come down stairs wearing a motor coat and cap, and paused on his way to the door on hearing the loud voices of the excited group round the young officer.
"One of the fishermen on the front.

The police constable at the place where the murder was committed--a little village with some outlandish name--came over here to report the news.