Brett left the cousins to arrange matters, and hurried to his sitting-room, where a number of telegrams awaited him.
Those from Hume he barely glanced at.

David could tell his own story.
There were three from Winter.

The first, despatched at 1.10 p.m., read: "Capella and valet left by club train.

Nothing doing Japanese." The second was timed 4.30 p.m.: "Jap, accompanied by tall, fat man, left home 2.45.They separated Piccadilly Circus.

Followed Jap--( "Oh, Winter!" groaned Brett)--and saw him enter British Museum.