--Y.O.G." Bray was silent.
"I take it you are aware, Inspector," I said, "that for the past two years Captain Fraser-Freer was stationed at Rangoon." Still he said nothing; just looked at me with those foxy little eyes that I was coming to detest.

At last he spoke sharply: "Just how," he demanded, "did you happen to discover those messages?
You were not in this room last night after I left ?" He turned angrily to the constable.

"I gave orders--" "No," I put in; "I was not in this room.

I happened to have on file in my rooms copies of the Mail, and by the merest chance--" I saw that I had blundered.

Undoubtedly my discovery of those messages was too pat.