Certain individuals decided that it would be better not to permit Lord Montdidier to reach Europe alive.

There were agents charged with the duty of attending to that.

It was considered safest to throw him overboard into the Mediterranean; men were ordered by cable to board the ship at Suez.

Yet when the ship reached Suez nobody knew anything about him! Tell me where he left the ship, and why!" He glared with eyes accustomed to extorting facts from savages, depending on physical weakness so to undermine my will that I would give my secret away, perhaps without knowing it.
I lowered my eyes, not being minded to match the strength of my eye-muscles against his.

The news that Monty had not reached Suez as a matter of fact made me feel physically sick.