�But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.�
�Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn�t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.�
�But the plans were on display ��
�On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.�
�That�s the display department.�
�With a flashlight.�
�Ah, well the lights had probably gone.�
�So had the stairs.�
�But look, you found the notice didn�t you?�
�Yes,� said Arthur, �yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying �Beware of the Leopard�.�