22/29 I cannot supply full particulars now, but you will learn them in due course. The point I wish to emphasize is this--poor Mr.Hunter's death was absolutely needless. I imagine he only came into connection with the intrigue by exercising the journalistic instinct to obtain exclusive details of a sensational news item which involved several distinguished people. The miserable tools employed by men who wished to gain their own ends were not even true to each other, and they undoubtedly attacked Hunter by error." "Did they mean to kill you, then ?" "Oh, no. |