What I wanted to ask you was whether you could tell me anything about a compatriot of yours--a Mr.Hamilton Fynes ?" "Hamilton Fynes!" Mr.Coulson repeated thoughtfully.

"Why, that's the man who got murdered on the cars, going from Liverpool to London." "That is so," Sir Edward admitted.
Mr.Coulson shook his head.
"I told that reporter fellow all I knew about him," he said.

"He was an unsociable sort of chap, you know, Sir Edward, and he wasn't in any line of business." "H'm! I thought he might have been," the Minister answered, glancing keenly for a moment at his visitor.

"To tell you the truth, Mr.Coulson, we have been a great deal bothered about that unfortunate incident, and by the subsequent murder of the young man who was attached to your Embassy here.

Scotland Yard has strained every nerve to bring the guilty people to justice, but so far unsuccessfully.