The only thing we know about Gathercole is that he sent his article to The Times with his card.

The servants of his Club are very vague as to his whereabouts.

He is a very eccentric man, who only comes in occasionally, and the steward whom I interviewed says that it frequently happened that Gathercole arrived and departed without anybody being aware of the fact.

We have been to his old lodgings in Lincoln's Inn, but apparently he sold up there before he went away to the wilds of Patagonia and relinquished his tenancy.
"The only clue I have is that a man answering to some extent to his description left by the eleven o'clock train for Paris last night." "You have seen the secretary of course," said the Chief.
It was a question which T.X.had been dreading.
"Gone too," he answered shortly; "in fact she has not been seen since 5:30 yesterday evening." Sir George leant back in his chair and rumpled his thick grey hair.
"The only person who seems to have remained," he said with heavy sarcasm, "was Kara himself.

Would you like me to put somebody else on this case--it isn't exactly your job--or will you carry it on ?" "I prefer to carry it on, sir," said T.X.