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"Jonah," said I, "I'm with you, but what can we do? For only one thing, we were bound to call in the police: and when the police came in, the matter went out of our hands."

"Don't you believe it," said Jonah. "The police'll go their own way: if we like to go ours, there's no reason why we should collide." He flung himself into a chair and crossed his legs. "You see, the point is this. For a month or six weeks the Plazas won't try to leave France. If they tried to leave France, they'd be taken--the nets are spread. And they're damned fine nets--that's where the French police excel. Where they fail is that the bird must go to the net. In England it's different: but there the net isn't so fine. You can't have it every way."

"You seem to know a lot about it," said Berry.

"Hearsay," said Jonah shortly. "What do you think?"

"I don't," said my brother-in-law. "I face the facts instead. What if the Plazas are in France? What if they've hidden the stuff under somebody's bed? Hell of a lot of beds in France, you know."