He wondered what to do. It was hopeless for one man to search the moors. Half a dozen or more were needed for that! He decided to get his car and go over to Olly’s Farm to get the men from there! So off he went.

But when he got there he found no one at home except Mrs. Andrews and the little maid. Mrs. Andrews looked bewildered and worried.

“What is the matter?” said Mr. Luffy gently, as she came running out to the car, looking very troubled.

“Oh, it’s you, Mr. Luffy,” she said, when he told her who he was. “I didn’t know who you were. Mr. Luffy, something queer is happening. All the men have gone — and all the lorries, too. My husband has taken the car — and nobody will tell me anything. I’m so worried.”

Mr. Luffy decided not to add to her worries by telling her the children were missing. He just pretended he had come to collect some milk. “Don’t worry,” he said comfortingly to Mrs. Andrews, “You’ll find things are all right in the morning, I expect. I’ll come and see you then. Now I must be off on an urgent matter.”

He went bumping along the road in his car, puzzled. He had known there was something queer about Olly’s Farm, and he had puzzled his brains a good deal over Olly’s Yard and the spook-trains. He hoped the children hadn’t got mixed up in anything dangerous.

“I’d better go down and report to the police that they’re missing,” he thought. “After all, I’m more or less responsible for them. It’s very worrying, indeed.”

He told what he knew at the police station, and the sergeant, an intelligent man, at once mustered six men and a police car.

“Have to find those kids,” he said. “And we’ll have to look into this Olly’s Farm business, sir, and these here spook-trains, whatever they may be. We’ve known there was something funny going on, but we couldn’t put our finger on it. But we’ll find the children first.”

They went quickly up to the moors and the six men began to fan out to search, with Mr. Luffy at the head. And the first thing they found was Anne!

She was still stumbling along, crying for Mr. Luffy, but in a very small, weak voice now. When she heard his voice calling her in the darkness she wept for joy.

“Oh, Mr. Luffy! You must save the boys,” she begged him. “They’re in that tunnel — and they’ve been caught by Mr. Andrews and his men, I’m sure. They didn’t come out and I waited and waited! Do come!”

“I’ve got some friends here who will certainly come and help,” said Mr. Luffy gently. He called the men, and in a few words told them what Anne had said.

“In the tunnel?” said one of them. “Where the spook-trains run? Well, come on, men, we’ll go down there.”