"I'm sure I----"
"Are there bells in the bed-rooms?"
"Yes, but----"
"Where do they ring?"
"Er--in the office. It is an English system----"
"Were there any calls between eleven and half-past twelve?"
Rowland was shooting his questions at the bewildered clerk like thunderbolts, and the man seemed to have grown more and more anxious.
"Calls? I dropped into a doze in my chair, as I have said. I cannot----"
"Think----!"
"Yes, a call or two--but I was half asleep----"