"With pleasure," replied Tommy. "You're making a sad mistake—but yours will be the loss."
"You don't kid us that way again," said Number 14."Talking as though you were still at the blooming Ritz,aren't you?"
Tommy made no reply. He was engaged in wondering how Mr. Brown had discovered his identity. He decided that Tuppence, in the throes of anxiety, had gone to the police, and that his disappearance having been made public the gang had not been slow to put two and two together.