The young man said he was the inspector. Among us we told him. The drunken cabman, almost sober, spoke quite differently. Sensible, alert. Now something would be done! I no longer regretted the youth of the inspector. This man was human. "You will bring 'the List' and come with us at once?" I was told he could not come. An inspector must stay at his post. An inspector's post was the station. But I clung to the hope he had inspired. What had he turned away for with that brisk air? My eyes went on before him, looking for the telephone he must be going to use; or an electric bell that should sound some great alarum, summoning a legion of police. He had come back; he stood before us holding in his hand a piece of yellow paper. Precisely such a piece of paper as that on which already, there in Alton Street, the miserable story was set down. I shall not be believed, but this man, too, began to write on the glazed surface with a stump of blunt lead-pencil. "_Don't_ wait to write it all again!" I prayed. "Telephone for help...." But he, too, made little of the need for haste. He, too, made much of what I had noticed as we left Victoria--the homely woman and the policeman watching as we drove away. "You think," Mrs. Harborough said, "that the woman was suspicious?" "No doubt--and no doubt the policeman was suspicious too." The inspector spoke with pride: "Oh, we get to know those people! They meet the trains. They're at the docks when ships come in." It was then I saw that Mrs. Harborough could be stirred too. "If the policeman knew," she said--"if he so much as suspected, why did he not stop the motor?" The inspector shook his head. "Why didn't he arrest the woman?" "He is not allowed," said the inspector. I was sure he couldn't be telling us the truth. A creeping despair came over me. My first impression had been right. This man was too young, too ignorant, to help in such appalling trouble as ours. He was speaking kindly still. I might be sure they would do all they could to discover the house---- "When? When?" And if they did discover it, he said, they would watch it. "'_Watch it!_'" I could not think I had heard right. "You don't mean stand outside and wait!--while all the time inside----" They tried to make me calmer. The inspector said, under certain circumstances, a warrant could be obtained to search the house.... And was the warrant ready? Everything possible would be done. Oh, the times they said that! Then the inspector, a little wearied, told Mrs. Harborough "it might be advisable to go and see the man who is in charge of all these cases." Not only I, Mrs. Harborough heard him. For she repeated, "'All these cases!' You don't mean such a thing has happened before?"