I heard the scraping of shoes on the leather top of the car, and presently the door opened and I saw a figure which I knew was not the cabman's.

He lifted me out, and fortunately the cab had stopped opposite a private house with a big porch, and to this he led me.
"'Wait,' he said.

'There is a place where you may telephone a little way along.

Wait till we have gone." "Then he went back to the cab, closed the door noiselessly, and immediately afterwards I saw Stay running along the path.

In a few seconds the cab had disappeared and I dragged myself to the shop--and that's all." No news had been received of Ling Chu when Tarling returned to his flat.
Whiteside was waiting; and told him that he had put Milburgh into the cells and that he would be charged the following day.
"I can't understand what has happened to Ling Chu.