"You shall hear the whole story." Norgate told him, as briefly as possible, of his meeting with Selingman, their conversation, and the subsequent happenings, including the interview which he had overheard on the golf links at Knocke.

When he had finished, there was a brief silence.
"Sounds rather like a page out of a novel, doesn't it, Mr.Norgate ?" the police official remarked at last.
"It may," Norgate assented drily.

"I can't help what it sounds like.

It happens to be the exact truth." "I do not for a moment doubt it," the other declared politely.

"I believe, indeed, that there are a large number of Germans working in this country who are continually collecting and forwarding to Berlin commercial and political reports.