The millionaire closed the door and motioned his companion to a chair.
"How long will it be before London wakes up to the knowledge of what is going on in its midst ?" he said.

"Is there anything in the newspapers?
I have had no time to read.

I passed a rather sleepless night, so did not rise until a late hour.

Then Helen was fired at.

I need hardly tell you that my time has been fully occupied since." Theydon gave a resume of the paragraph which had appeared in at least one of the morning journals, and admitted that some inkling of the truth was bound to gain publicity during the next few hours.
"I cannot understand why it is the reporters are not here by the score already," he went on.