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`` All comes of someone trying to get a message through to Bray and making the manager believe it was a life and death matter ! '' `` Harry must have tried to telephone -- that 's why they 've come , '' said Jack . `` I was wondering how they found out about the break . You see , as a rule , no one would try to ring up anyone in Bray after seven o'clock or so . And of course , they could n't tell we were trying to ring , with the wire cut like that . '' `` Oh , Jack ! '' said Dick , suddenly .