Now what do you make of it ?" "I shall be able to tell you better after I have seen the parties concerned," said Cleek, after a moment's pause.

"You have brought your motor, of course?
Let us step into it, then, and whizz round to Captain Morrison's house.

What's that?
Oh, undoubtedly a case of foul play, Mr.
Narkom.

But as to the motive and the matter of who is guilty, it is impossible to decide until I have looked further into the evidence.

Do me a favour, will you?
After you have left me at the Captain's house, 'phone up The Yard, and let me have the secret cable code with the East; also, if you can, the name of the chief of the Persian police." "My dear chap, you can't really place any credence in that absurd assertion regarding the blue belt?
You can't possibly think that Abdul ben Meerza really sent the thing ?" "No, I can't," said Cleek in reply.