All the cards on the table, please." Cutty rose and pushed the invalid's chair to a window and drew another up beside it.
"My word, the top of the world! Bally odd roost." "You will find it safer here than you would on the shores of Kaspuskoi More," replied Cutty, gravely.

"The Caspian wouldn't be a healthy place for you now." With wide eyes Hawksley stared across the shining, wavering roofs.

A pause.

"What do you know ?" he asked, faintly.
"Everything.

But wait!" Cutty fetched one of the photographs and laid it upon the young man's knees.