HINTS TO HUNTERLEYS Hunterleys, in accordance with his request, followed the Commissioner downstairs into one of the small private rooms on the ground floor.

The latter was very polite but very official.
"Now what is it that you want ?" Hunterleys asked, a little brusquely, as soon as they were alone.
The representative of the law was distinctly mysterious.

He had a brown moustache which he continually twirled, and he was all the time dropping his voice to a whisper.
"My first introduction to you should explain my mission, Sir Henry," he said.

"I hold a high position in the police here.

My business with you, however, is on behalf of a person whom I will not name, but whose identity you will doubtless guess." "Very well," Hunterleys replied.