Had he got them all you would not be sitting there, my friend.
The general scheme he got--the list of committee names, the local agents, the foreign agents.

But the complete list of the League he failed to find.

He secured the list of subscribers, but learned nothing from it because the sums were identified by a numeral only, the clue to the numbers being the complete list, which I burned when I missed the other papers." Steinmetz nodded curtly.
"That was wise," he said.

"You are a clever man, Stepan, but too good for this world and its rascals.

Go on." "It would appear that Bamborough rode to Tver with the papers, which he handed to his wife.