I should have told you that, replied Lieutenant Hollyer. "I happened to strike up with a newspaper man whose office is in the same block as Creake's. When I mentioned the name he grinned. 'Creake, ' he said, 'oh, he's the man with the romantic typist, isn't he?' 'Well, he's my brother-in-law, ' I replied. 'What about the typist?' Then the chap shut up like a knife.