One choice bit of evidence he secured in a most canny manner.

He was present when Miss Pelham, at the bank, was "taking" a dictation for the Enemy--some matter pertaining to the output of the mines.

Lady Deppingham had just been guilty of a most astounding piece of foolhardiness, and he was discussing it with the Enemy.

She had forced her horse to leap across a narrow fissure in the volcano the day before.

Falling, she would have gone to her death three hundred feet below.
"She must be an out and out lunatic," the Enemy had said.