There Was An Old Woman (2013)
“. . The Narrow Escape of Sergeant Velie Ellery fell asleep like a cat and awoke like a man. As his senses unfolded he became conscious of unnatural quiet and unnatural noise. The house, which should have been filled with the sounds of people, was not; the front lawn, which had been empty, was filled with the sounds of people.
He leaped from his borrowed bed and ran to one of the windows overlooking the front lawn. The sun was high now, in a hot blue sky, and it glared down upon a swarm of men. They surrounded the Shoe, near the base of which the inspector stood at Day. There was a great deal of shouting.
Ellery threw on his clothes and raced downstairs. “Dad! What’s the trouble?” he cried, on the run.
But the Inspector was too busy to reply.
Then Ellery saw that this was not a mob, but a group of reporters and newspaper photographers engaged—if a trifle zealously—in the underpaid exercise of their duty.
“Ah, here’s the Master Mind!”
“Maybe he’s got a tongue.”
“What’s the lowdown, Hawkshaw?”
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