He was in no manner of trouble.

It was not suggested that any one had any cause for enmity against him.

Yet this attack upon him must have been carefully planned and carried out by a person of great strength and wonderful nerve.

The newspaper-reading public in London love their thrills, and they had one here which needed no artificial embellishments from the pens of those trained in an atmosphere of imagination.

The simple truth was, in itself, horrifying.