Everything depended upon their being carried out now without the slightest hitch.

He walked a dozen times to the door, waiting for his luggage, and when at last it arrived he was on the point of using the telephone.

He feed the linen-coated porters and dismissed them as rapidly as possible.

Then he ransacked the trunks until he found, amidst a pile of fashionable clothing, a quiet and inconspicuous suit of dark grey.

In the bathroom he hastily changed his clothes, selected an ordinary Homburg hat, and filled a small leather case with various papers.