2. How Dr. Zellermann used the telephone
and Simon Templar went visiting
1
Simon woke up with the squeal of the telephone bell splitting his eardrums. He reached out a blind hand for it and said: "Hullo."
"Hullo," it said. "Mr. Templar?"
The voice was quite familiar, although its inflection was totally different from the way he had heard it last. It was still excessively precise and perfectionist; but whereas before it had had the precision of a spray of machine-gun slugs, now it had the mellifluous authority of a mechanical unit in a production tine.
"Speaking," said the Saint.
"I hope I didn't wake you up."
"Oh, no."
Simon glanced at his wrist watch. It was just after twelve.