after-lock-up

Updated: May 12, 2025

He had been doing his usual after-lock-up prowl on the junior gravel, to intercept stragglers, and he had been a witness from a distance of fifty yards, in a very bad light of the descent into the vault. He had remained on the gravel ever since, in the hope of catching them as they came up; but as they had not come up, he had determined to make the first move himself.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Gold Bat