"Very interesting," remarked his elderly vis-a-vis, every line of whose features and every curve of whose body suggested the military man. "I met a chap like that once. He never seemed to move his elbow. Yes, he beat us all at our own game, although he was only a detective."
"I know the chap you mean," commented a well-known Kings Counsel from across the table. "He was Gilbert Larose!" He laughed in some amusement. "Only a detective, indeed, but he was the best one Scotland Yard ever had; and when he married Lady Ardane and retired it was a great loss to the C.I.D." He turned to the Baltic ambassador. "A remarkable man, and excelled in so many ways. They say he could cook like a chef, he was a fine actor and a great master of ju-jitsu."
Some faint chord of memory stirred uneasily in von
