“Well, I’m damned,” said Sinclair.
“You may be for all I know, but I was just off to tennis,” and he glanced at his flannels. “I suppose someone has been playing the fool. I’ll get off.”
“Stop. If they have, they have been trying to fool me, too,” and he told of the message he had received.
Collins listened with interest.
“What have you done?” he said.
“I asked Lewis to find out where the Home Secretary was. I expect he has found him now. The thing is absurd.”
Lewis came in.
“Well?” said Sinclair.
“The Home Secretary is not in the House or at the Home Office. They do not know where he is.”
“Call up his house,” said Sinclair, irritated.