He must be highly skilled in police work, and have a reputation to enhance or lose as the result might decide.

Suddenly a name occurred to him.

A short time ago his friend the President had been telling him the inner story of a very intricate case which had involved a scandal of two Courts.

Only the most meagre details had obviously been permitted to appear in the papers, but His Lordship had told him that it had been solved and settled almost entirely by the skill and diplomacy of a M.Nicol Hendry, who held the little advertised but highly responsible position of Head of the English Department of the International Police Bureau.
"That's the very man," he said, "the very man, and I shouldn't wonder if he's engaged on this particular case.

It's too late to wire, and, besides, that would look suspicious.