When you get lost in our streets and do not know where you are, it is a good plan to seek information from a policeman.

The author tried to persuade the editor to allow him to write "to be continued" after the last thrilling chapter, but the editor was inexorable, hence this chapter, "in the arms of"a little red-headed policeman.

Down from the curb, and at the beck and call of this or that policeman up again, only to find opportunity for still another dive out from the invisible roping off of the sidewalk crowds.

A policeman struck his stick.

I sat there for I cannot tell how long, expecting every moment that were it but a policeman, somebody would notice and help me; but no one came.

The fourth man was a policeman in uniform, who, at a word from Simmonds, took his station at the door.

The same thought, no doubt, occurred to Simmonds, for, after ordering the policeman in the hall to call the ambulance, he returned and began a careful search of the room, using his electric torch to illumine every shadowed corner.

But no policeman interfered, and five minutes later we drew up before the Vantine place.

" "Well, since you are here you had better come inside instead of standing there and giving yourself and me away to every passing policeman.

The eminent counsel's success in the few criminal cases in which he had consented to appear had gained him the respectful esteem of those who considered themselves oppressed by the law, and the spectators on the pavement might have raised a cheer for him if their exuberance had not been restrained by the proximity of the policeman guarding the entrance.

Where's that?" Espying a policeman eyeing him with more or less curiosity from the other side of the street, he crossed over and requested to be directed to Cuthbert Road.

A policeman, before he has been long in the force, has to face the fact that he is generally regarded as a comic character.

We used to think, in the old-fashioned days when life was very simple, that all that government had to do was to put on a policeman's uniform and say, "Now don't anybody hurt anybody else."

Therefore, the policeman goes up the stairway and patrols the corridors; the lighting department of the city sees to it that the halls are abundantly lighted.

" "You'll go with a policeman," declared Andy, glancing along the walk.

To hear a little underbred policeman dare to speak like that to my big, brave, handsome Englishman, and to know that it would be childish and undignified of Ivor to resistoh, I could have killed the creature with my own handsI think!

It was just possible, as it was so late, and his way had led him through quiet streets, that even after all this time the little brocade bag might be lying where he had left itor that some honest policeman on his beat might have picked it up.

I promised, however, that in the event of my observing anything in the nature of a policeman stealthily approaching the hut I would at once seek sanctuary on the Bettyan assurance which might have sounded worthless to some people, but certainly seemed to comfort Joyce.

Anyhow, forewarned as I was, I felt it would be an uncommonly bright policeman who succeeded in arresting me.

I could just see that he was a tall, active-looking fellow in a policeman's uniform, with a long raking stride that was carrying him over the ground in the most unpleasant fashion.

Jumping from the sea-wall, the policeman fairly hurled himself across the intervening space, and without a moment's hesitation plunged into the creek after me.

For a moment I saw them all three consulting together, and then my friend the policeman started hastily throwing off his clothes with the apparent intention of swimming across the river, while the other two came running along the bank after me.

Then I saw that my friend the policeman, who could apparently swim as well as he could run, was already half way across the creek, and would be on my track long before I could get the necessary start.

As one of them was wearing a policeman's uniform, I thought I had better cut and run.

And, deepest of humiliations, it is your old rival, it is your tall and angular sister, it is the black city of London, who takes your glittering sword and transforms it into a policeman's baton of wood!