"there actually was a pool-room there," he went on, "so possibly i am wronging comrade parker in thinking that this was a scheme of his for getting me out of the way. at any rate, somebody gave the tip, and at about three o'clock this morning i was aroused from a dreamless slumber by quite a considerable hammering at my door. there, standing on the mat, were two policemen. very cordially the honest fellows invited me to go with them. a conveyance, it seemed, waited in the street without.