At Ealing he and Dick carried out their plan exactly. Dick stayed with the
cab, outside the wall; Harry hurried in. And five minutes after Harry had
gone inside a file of soldiers, coming around from another gate, surrounded
the cab and arrested the driver.
CHAPTER V
ON THE TRAIL
Harry had reached Colonel Throckmorton without difficulty and before
delivering Major French's message, he explained his suspicions regarding
the driver.
"What's that? Eh, what's that?" asked the colonel. "Spy? This country's
suffering from an epidemic of spy fever--that's what! Still--a taxicab
driver, eh? Perhaps he's one of the many who's tried to overcharge me. I'll
put him in the guardhouse, anyway! I'll find out if you're right later,
young man!"
As a matter of fact, and as Harry surmised, Colonel Throckmorton felt that
it was not a time to take chances. He was almost sure that Harry was
letting his imagination run away with him, but it would be safer to arrest
a man by mistake than to let him go if there was a chance that he was
guilty. So he gave the order, and then turned to question Harry. The scout
first gave Major French's message, and Colonel Throckmorton immediately
dispatched an orderly after giving him certain whispered instructions.
"Now tell me just why you suspect your driver.
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