Then from somewhere in the rear of the house came the sound of a human voice.
"Hi!" it called faintly.

"Whoever you be, don't bust that door down.
Come round here." Ellery walked around the corner of the building.

The voice came again.
"Say!" it wailed, "why don't you answer?
Be you comin'?
If you're a peddler, you needn't." "I'm not a peddler," was the minister's amused reply.
"Oh, ain't ye?
All right.

Come along, then." Ellery "came along" as far as the angle where the ell joined the main body of the house.

So far as he could see every door and window was closed and there were no signs of life.