“Who’s Pongo?”

“Chap called Bateman⁠—secretary to old Coote. Solemn sort of cove but very conscientious. I was at school with him.”

“There doesn’t seem anything very suspicious there,” remarked Loraine.

“No, there doesn’t,” said Bundle. “As you say, we’ll have to look amongst the servants. By the way, you don’t suppose that clock being thrown out of the window had anything to do with it.”

“A clock thrown out of the window,” said Jimmy, staring. It was the first he had heard of it.

“I can’t see how it can have anything to do with it,” said Bundle. “But it’s odd somehow. There seems no sense in it.”