Henry made a gesture of extreme pride.
“Most of this I’ve told you I know because Rouse knows—and Rouse told me, and, by Gemini! he told the right man. But how did I know Coles was in there? Well, it’s as plain to me as if it were written up on a placard outside the door. Coles is nowhere in the school, and you’ve stuck here for the last hour. To prove it I came up as though I were going into the room and you wouldn’t let me ... and I say ... does this mean he’s not going to help in the hullabaloo at all?”
“I don’t know,” said Bobbie wretchedly.
Henry considered the matter for a moment. At last he turned and seized the other by the wrist.
“Very well,” said he, “I’m going to fetch Coles out of it.”
“Fetch him out?”
“Certainly.”
“How?”
“By going in.”
“But that won’t fetch him out—unless you mean he’ll chase you.”