The only help I could get hold of here was from Sidney Roche, who, as you know, is one of our Secret Service men.

Roche, I am sorry to say, was shot last night.

He may live but he won't be well enough to take any further hand in the game here, and I have no one to take his place." "Roche shot!" Mr.Simpson exclaimed, in a shocked tone.

"How did it happen ?" "They found him lying on the roof of the Villa Mimosa, just over the room where the meeting was taking place," Hunterleys replied.

"They chased him round the grounds and we just got him off in a motor-car, but not before he'd been hit twice.