The Secret Adversary - Chapters 21 & 22

CHAPTER XXI & XXII

TOMMY MAKES A DISCOVERY

For a moment or two they stood staring at each other stupidly, dazed with the shock. Somehow, inexplicably, Mr. Brown had forestalled them. Tommy accepted defeat quietly. Not so Julius.

“How in tarnation did he get ahead of us? That’s what beats me!” he ended up.

Tommy shook his head, and said dully: “It accounts for the stitches being new. We might have guessed....”

“Never mind the darned stitches. How did he get ahead of us?"