From Moscow he had returned to St.Petersburg; there he had stayed a fortnight; thence he had journeyed to Revel, from Revel he had crossed the Baltic to Stockholm; from Stockholm he had gone across country to Christiania.

And from Christiania he had sailed for Hull to meet his death in that adjacent room where the doctors were now busied with his body.
Marshall Allerdyke, though he had no actual monetary connection with them, had always possessed a fairly accurate knowledge of his cousin's business affairs--James was the sort of man who talked freely to his intimates about his doings.

Therefore Allerdyke was able to make out from the journal what James had done during his stay at St.Petersburg, in Moscow, in Revel, and in Stockholm, in all of which places he had irons of one sort or another in the fire.

He recognized the names of various firms upon which James had called--these names were as familiar to him as those of the big manufacturing concerns in his own town.

James had been to see this man, this man had been to see James.