"
"So it was safer to have her out of the way?"
"Yes."
"But, look here, Tony, why do you want to bother about this end
of it? We can always get in at the bowling-green end."
"I know, but if we do that we shall have to do it openly. It
will mean breaking open the box, and letting Cayley know that
we've done it. You see, Bill, if we don't find anything out for
ourselves in the next day or two, we've got to tell the police
what we have found out, and then they can explore the passage for
themselves. But I don't want to do that yet."
"Rather not.
"So we've got to carry on secretly for a bit. It's the only
way." He smiled and added, "And it's much more fun."
"Rather!" Bill chuckled to himself.
"Very well. Where does the secret passage begin?"
CHAPTER XI
The Reverend Theodore Ussher
"There's one thing, which we have got to realize at once," said
Antony, "and that is that if we don't find it easily, we shan't
find it at all."
"You mean that we shan't have time?"
"Neither time nor opportunity. Which is rather a consoling
thought to a lazy person like me.
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