He may be the straightest business man in all London--and yet have a finger in this pie, and his secretary with him.
Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds' worth of jewels, Mr.Allerdyke, is--a temptation! And--these folks knew the jewels were on the way.
What's more, they'd time to intercept their bearer--Mr.James." Allerdyke rubbed his chin and knitted his brows in obvious bewilderment.
"There must ha' been more than them in at it," he said musingly.

"A regular gang of 'em, judging by results." "Every gang has its ganger," replied Appleyard, with a knowing smile.
"There's no doubt this is a big thing--but there must be a central point, a head, a controlling authority in it.

We come back, you see, after all, to where we started--these people were the only people in England who knew about these jewels, so far as we know." "Aye, but only so far as we know," said Allerdyke.

"There may have been others.

There may have been folks who got to know about them over there in Russia and who communicated their knowledge to some folks here.