At first, when I began to suspect that something had been taken from its place, I had no proof.

I had to get that, and I did get it--nearly all I wanted.

This affair of Dundas might have been planned for my advantage.
It is perfect.

All its complications are just so many links in a chain for me.

Girard--the man Dundas chose to employ--was the very man I'd sent to England; on what errand, do you think?
To watch your friend the British Foreign Secretary.