There is no doubt whatever that Kara has engineered all the political assassinations which have been such a feature in the news from Albania during this past year.
We also found in the house very large sums of money and documents which we have handed over to the Foreign Office for decoding." Sir George thought for a long time.
Then he said, "I have an idea that if you find your secretary you will be half way to solving the mystery." T.X.went out from the office in anything but a joyous mood.

He was on his way to lunch when he remembered his promise to call upon John Lexman.
Could Lexman supply a key which would unravel this tragic tangle?
He leant out of his taxi-cab and redirected the driver.

It happened that the cab drove up to the door of the Great Midland Hotel as John Lexman was coming out.
"Come and lunch with me," said T.X.

"I suppose you've heard all the news." "I read about Kara being killed, if that's what you mean," said the other.

"It was rather a coincidence that I should have been discussing the matter last night at the very moment when his telephone bell rang--I wish to heaven you hadn't been in this," he said fretfully.
"Why ?" asked the astonished Assistant Commissioner, "and what do you mean by 'in it' ?" "In the concrete sense I wish you had not been present when I returned," said the other moodily, "I wanted to be finished with the whole sordid business without in any way involving my friends." "I think you are too sensitive," laughed the other, clapping him on the shoulder.