He's spending his holidays with us." "Where is he ?" asked Tufnell, impressed by the magic of the name of Scotland Yard.
"He's just stepped over to the _Fox and Knot_ to have a game of billiards, finding it a bit lonesome here, after London.

Do you think we might send for him and take him with us ?" "I think it would be a very good idea," said Tufnell.

"But can he be got at once ?" he added, with a glance at the little clock on the mantelpiece.

"The sooner we return the better." "The wife can bring him while I am changing my boots.

Hurry down to the _Fox_, Maggie, and tell Tom he's wanted at once." "Don't tell him what it's for until you get him outside," hastily counselled the butler as the policeman's wife was departing on her errand.