"I have heard it rumored that it is a special mission entirely concerned with the renewal of the treaty between England and Japan.

However that may be, I have sat here, and I have thought, and I have come to this conclusion, ridiculous though it may seem to you at first.

I believe that somewhere behind the hand which killed and robbed Hamilton Fynes and poor Dicky stood the benevolent shadow of our friend Prince Maiyo." "You have no proof ?" she asked breathlessly.
"No proof at all," the Ambassador admitted.

"I am scarcely in a position to search for any.

The conclusion I have come to has been simply arrived at through putting a few facts together and considering them in the light of certain events.