Poor Fraser-Freer would have got him if I hadn't--only Von der Herts had the luck to get the captain first." Bray raised his eyes.
"You said you were going to tell me--" he began.
"And so I am," said Hughes.

"Captain Fraser-Freer got in rather a mess in India and failed of promotion.

It was suspected that he was discontented, soured on the Service; and the Countess Sophie de Graf was set to beguile him with her charms, to kill his loyalty and win him over to her crowd.
"It was thought she had succeeded--the Wilhelmstrasse thought so--we at the War Office thought so, as long as he stayed in India.
"But when the captain and the woman came on to London we discovered that we had done him a great injustice.

He let us know, when the first chance offered, that he was trying to redeem himself, to round up a dangerous band of spies by pretending to be one of them.

He said that it was his mission in London to meet Von der Herts, the greatest of them all; and that, once he had located this man, we would hear from him again.