No need of hiking any further in this rain; so he hunted for a taxi.

To-morrow he would set the wires humming relative to old Stefani Gregor.

Boris Karlov, if indeed it were he, would lead the way.

Hadn't Stefani and Boris been boyhood friends, and hadn't Stefani betrayed the latter in some political affair?
He wasn't sure; but a glance among his 1912 notes would clear up the fog.
But that young chap! Who was he?
Cutty set his process of logical deduction moving.

Karlov--always supposing that gorilla was Karlov--had come in from the west.