UARTER-PAST eight, and no sign of a guest!” I exclaimed.
“You are sure you asked 'em for eight and not eight-thirty?” said Dick.
“Positive; it was on the card. I noticed particularly.”
“Perhaps they've gone to your rooms,” suggested Teddy.
“Scarcely. Some of them do not know my address, and this house was also engraved upon the card.”
We were sitting round the anteroom fire while Halfred waited in the dining-room.
“Beg pardon, sir,” he observed, putting his head through the door-way. “But perhaps they've smelled a rat, like as I do.”