"Curiously enough, the man who must know most about the whole thing is an Englishman, one of the most curious mortals in the British Empire.

A spy of his succeeded in learning more than any of our people, and without being arrested, too." "And who is this singular person ?" Hamel asked.
"A man of whom you, I suppose, never heard," Kinsley replied.

"His name is Fentolin--Miles Fentolin--and he lives somewhere down in Norfolk.

He is one of the strangest characters that ever lived, stranger than any effort of fiction I ever met with.

He was in the Foreign Office once, and every one was predicting for him a brilliant career.