He died on the 17th of January of this year.

I was in Genoa at the time, having gone there at his request to save his belongings.

When I returned he had been buried.

I went through his papers and it was then that I conceived my idea of how I might approach Kara.
"I found a letter from the Greek, which had been addressed to Buenos Ayres, to await arrival, and then I remembered in a flash, how Kara had told me he had sent George Gathercole to South America to report upon possible gold formations.

I was determined to kill Kara, and determined to kill him in such a way that I myself would cover every trace of my complicity.
"Even as he had planned my downfall, scheming every step and covering his trail, so did I plan to bring about his death that no suspicion should fall on me.
"I knew his house.