I had an idea, Mr.
Dunster, that I should find you a reasonable person.

Men of your eminence in their profession usually are." Mr.Dunster looked at the speaker curiously.
"And what might my profession be, Mr.Fentolin ?" he asked.

"You seem to know a great deal about me." "It is true," Mr.Fentolin admitted.

"I do know a great deal." Mr.Dunster knocked the ash from his cigar.
"Well," he said, "I have been the hearer of several important communications from my side of the Atlantic to England and to the Continent, and I have always known that there was a certain amount of risk in the business.

Once I had an exceedingly narrow shave," he continued reminiscently, "but this is the first time I have ever been dead up against it, and I don't mind confessing that you've fairly got me puzzled.