“No, but having been brought face to face with him as we were for the first time this morning, we are most profoundly and unpleasantly impressed with his strength of personality, and we realise how we have been under-estimating him. We are now convinced the paltry little items of information that from time to time he mails abroad cannot possibly represent the sum total of his activities over here. He must be playing a much deeper game.”
“But I think you must add, Grant,” said Sir Herbert quickly, “that those two discoveries of last week had in part prepared us for this change in our ideas.”
“Quite so,” agreed Mr. Grant, “for they certainly did suggest that we were under-estimating him.” He turned to Larose. “It's a long story, but I will make it very short.” He spoke impressively. “Now f
