I am curious to see how far these threats will go.

It will take a clever man to trap me.

The incognito is a fort.

By the way, I wonder how the inspectors at the station came to overlook my traps?
Strange, considering what I have gone through." At this moment the knuckles of a hand beat against the door.
"Come in!" answered the Englishman, wheeling his chair, but making no effort to rise.

"Come in!" The door swung in, and there entered a short, spectacled man in dark gray clothes which fairly bristled with brass buttons.