We proceeded directly to my employer’s little house on East Sixty —— Street. It was still something short of ten o’clock, and Mme. Storey telephoned immediately to Inspector Rumsey. Upon being assured that the matter was of first-rate importance, the Inspector said he would motor right down to join us.
Inspector Rumsey glanced at Mme. Storey with pleasure when he came in. He is a little man of quite undistinguished appearance whose whole study it is to render himself still more inconspicuous. Ordinarily his face is as inscrutable as one of the little crooks whom it is his business to track down, but in my employer’s presence he relaxes and becomes quite human. He is a first-class police official and absolutely incorruptible.
Mme. Storey went directly to the point. “Are you keeping Dr. Fe
