"I dunno. 'E was a toff. All dressed up, 'e was, like 'im." He pointed to Flash Arne.
"Was there anyone with him?"
"Yus. There was a woman with 'im. She was a toff, too. She'll be in the car, too — she said she would."
Ganning took his hand away from his hip pocket.
"Well, that ought to be easy," he said. He looked at Essenden. "Guess we'd better go down and fetch them in."
Essenden nodded. He could hardly believe his good fortune.
"You'd better all go," he said. "They may be armed. Here, tie this man up first."
He took a length of cord out of a drawer and brought it over. Harver seized the prisoner's arms and twisted them roughly behind him. Keld performed the roping with a practised hand. The prisoner was then dropped into a corner like a sack of coals.
"He won't get out of that in a hurry," said Matt Keld.
Ganning hitched himself round the table.