You follow me ?" "Perfectly!" answered De Chauxville coldly.
"I have been here a week," went on the Russian spy, "making enquiries.

I have worked the whole affair out, link by link, till the evening when the husband and wife parted.

She went west with the papers.

Where did he go ?" De Chauxville picked up the cigarette, looked at it curiously, as at a relic--the relic of the moment of strongest emotion through which he had ever passed--and threw it into the ash-tray.

He did not speak, and after a moment Vassili went on, stating his case with lawyer-like clearness.
"A body was found on the steppe," he said; "the body of a middle-aged man dressed as a small commercial traveller would dress.