What all this has got to do
with the 'Frozen Flame' business I must confess somewhat puzzles me to
discover. But that it _has_ something to do with it is proved by that
fishy character Borkins, and the amiable attempt of his friend to murder
so humble a person as myself. Now it's up to me to find the missing link
in the chain.... Hello! here's a gap in the hedge here. Looks like it had
been made on purpose. Let's go and investigate."
He whipped his little torch round and the circle of light flashing over
the ground, revealed to their searching eyes something vastly unexpected
in such a place and yet which, after all, seemed to fit into a place
where so much mystery and secretiveness was in the air. They themselves,
disguised as such rough characters, fitted into the strange picture,
which struck Cleek, even in spite of his many peculiar cases, as very
much out of the ordinary.
A gap in the hedge there was, right enough. And through the gap--someone
must have been working here a very short time before--a square of turf,
cut carefully out and laid upon one side, revealed to their astonished
eyes a wooden trap-door, exactly suggestive of the pirates' den of a
child's imagination, and with a huge iron ring fastened to the centre of
it.
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