He was a good deal intrigued by his discovery of the secret telephone.

Edith had once said something about knowing of a secret telephone.

Oh, like you didn't deserve it, poor you who makes secret telephone calls to another man.

Just to be absolutely sure-orat any rate, absolutely free of guilt- IcalledDoakes's top secret telephone number again.

Private and secret telephone numbers of police, intelligence chiefs and under-cover intelligence officers distributed by Baba Jukwa were also correct.

He saw now that his tapping of the secret telephone must have been discovered, and that his enemies had used their discovery to mislead him.

Then she added: "I know a place that's got a secret telephone." But he was absorbed in the picture, and made no comment on that.

"No house has any business with a secret telephone," he said virtuously.