"Mrs.Rheinholdt's coming here to identify her jewels at twelve o'clock, and I can't run any risk of there being no train back.

You'd better be making good with the section boss.
Take plenty of bills with you." "Sure! That's easy enough," Laura promised him.

"I'll be waiting for you." She hurried off and Quest commenced his own preparations.

From his safe he took one of the small black lumps of explosive to which he had once before owed his life, and fitted it carefully in a small case with a coil of wire and an electric lighter.

He looked at his revolver and recharged it.
Finally he rang the bell for his confidential valet.
"Ross," he asked, "who else is here to-day besides you ?" "No one to-day, sir." "Just as well, perhaps," Quest observed.