"I do not see, Selingman, why you could not have hired this fellow through Allen or one of the others." Selingman shook his head.
"See here, Draconmeyer," he explained, "this is one of the cases where agents are dangerous.

For Allen to have been seen with Jean Coulois here would have been the same as though I had been seen with him myself.

I cannot, alas! in this place, with my personality, keep my identity concealed.

They know that I am Selingman.

They know well that wherever I move, I have with me men of my Secret Service.