He was looking at the few words scrawled across the pink sheet with a heavy black pencil: "Make every enquiry in your neighbourhood for an American, John P.Dunster, entrusted with message of great importance, addressed to Von Dusenberg, The Hague.

Is believed to have been in railway accident near Wymondham and to have been taken from inn by young man in motor-car.

Suggest that he is being improperly detained." Hamel crumpled up the telegram and thrust it into his pocket.
"By-the-by," he asked, as they ascended the steps, "what did you say the name of this poor fellow was who is lying ill up-stairs ?" Gerald hesitated for a moment.

Then he answered as though a species of recklessness had seized him.
"He called himself Mr.John P.Dunster.".