looked at Kindell with trouble

ink you will g

the same breath, he required her to do, and which had ended in his telling her that she talked too much, and it was no use her tryin

hat you would give me away in a moment if you thought that you were in the slightest danger from the police which

for the imputations on her own brains, which she had heard often before, but fear made her stubborn as she rep

and even you are not stupid enough to go wrong in that - and you'll have nothing to fear. . . . As a ma

t's an arra

keep it till I return, and if you've got any use for a hundred pounds, I'll give you a note of that value when I see you

at, but she was only half assured, and he

"Yes. It will be all righ

nt for the parcel which lay between them. That was well. She had feared, as he spoke, that she would be required to open and

u needn't even be near me. gut

mbers of the C.I.D., who would either arrest her with the packet still in her possession or let her go to do with it what she would. The alternatives were to depend upon a wire from the Bureau de S?ret?, which Reynard had undertaken to send so that it would arrive at about the same time as they. Such was the plan which he had proposed in a telephone discussion between his department and

as trying to smuggle jewellery through without her unc

nk him a fool? But he had a doubt which he must test, and, in short, they m

easoned doubts, had prevailed at last. So it was to be - and so it wasn't at all, for the plan failed. It

ook instructions from them. He knew what was to be done, and he was not one who would be r likely to fail. He was a man in robust health, who would not be expected to fall suddenly ill. Yet fall ill he did, experienci

is was a man who had recently come on the staff, and who appeared to be of more than average alertnes

upon what should be done. "You needn't be too nos

adily. There was no indication that t

uption, which was suspected among the staff. Neither knew of the secret function the other had. It seemed to him

a brother officer's side. He took him out of turn, letting o

e suitcase containing the hidden parcel, and another of more orthodox construction, in the expectation that their contents wo

ing the origin of those which were least worn. Was it, he wondered with growing impatience, no

He saw that he must succeed for his own justification, and his conviction that there was something to be discovered remained unshaken. His hands felt along the linings of the emptied case, while he considered

to look blank inco

know what

ered with a

think you

in the otherwise empty shed. The man measured the outside of the case, and

that you'd bett

t be anything in it. I've never used it. I didn't know it was there," he added in

n in dealing with those who are destined to be heavily fined. He said, "Tell that to the marines." He picked

I'd no idea it was there. I expect you'll have to admit

ould be in any serious trouble, there were ways in which he might be protected and helped, his connection with the C.I.D. would not be publicly owned. He might be expe

hoping to see him board it at the last second, while trying to persuade herself that he might have escaped her observation, and be already upon the train, he watched the

officer swept them together again. "You'd bette

I've never seen - " Kindell began, in what h

now pushed forward to examine the trinkets with experienced eyes. "Talbot," he

ave thought that

pertly among the baubles. "It's all ru

on earth d

Kindell interrupted, "and I didn't know it was there.

the diplomatic politeness which

r, if you send in a claim. We'll find som

e zeal had had so strange a result. As they passed out of Kindell's heari

g fishy about it, even if the

but not many queerer than that. What I asked

e asked me to pass him without looking to

r ass of yourself than I supp

u're all in

igger fool than you've been y

ustoms detective dropped. H