Most likely he'll be with a Company man and the moment they know it's me they'll try to trace the call.

"You mean that someone has to be in the telephone exchange to trace the call?"

She's been holding me on the phone while they traced the call.

They must have traced the call after the first failure of the phone.

So if we traced the call and got her, she wouldn't be able to tell us anything.

I might as well tell you we weren't able to trace the call.

They'd have traced the call and know roughly where I am.

Tell him it's no use trying to trace the call.

"Betty heard us, and the central office will be able to trace the call."

The task force is not able to trace the call.