The robbery was engineered from there." "Then, in that case, there's naught to do but wait the arrival of the Princess," said Allerdyke.

"And you say she'll be here to-morrow night.
In the meantime no doubt you police gentlemen'll get more news about this last affair at Hull, and perhaps Miss Lennard'll find those references about the Frenchwoman, and maybe we shall mop things up bit by bit--for mopped up they'll have to be, or my name isn't what it is! Fullaway," he went on, rising from his chair, "I'll have to leave you--yon man o' mine'll be arriving from Yorkshire with my things before long, and I must go down to the hotel office and make arrangements about him.

See you later--at dinner to-night, here, eh ?" He lounged away through the outer office, giving the smart lady secretary a keen glance as he passed her and getting an equally scrutinizing, if swift, look in return.
"Clever!" mused Allerdyke as he closed the door behind him.

"Deuced clever, that young woman.

Um--well, it's a pretty coil, to be sure!" He went down to the office, made full and precise arrangements about Gaffney, who was to be given a room close to his own, left some instructions as to what was to be done with him on arrival, and then, hands in pockets, strolled out into Aldwych and walked towards the Strand, his eyes bent on the ground as if he strove to find in those hard pavements some solution of all these difficulties.