Speaking as a person outside the office I should say that 'G.

G.' was 'George Gathercole' the explorer you know, the fellow who had an arm chewed off by a lion or something." "George Gathercole!" repeated T.X.

"What an ass I am." "Yes," said the voice at the other end the wire, and he had rung off before T.X.could think of something suitable to say.
Having elucidated this little side-line of mystery, the matter passed from the young Commissioner's mind.

It happened that morning that his work consisted of dealing with John Lexman's estate.
With the disappearance of the couple he had taken over control of their belongings.

It had not embarrassed him to discover that he was an executor under Lexman's will, for he had already acted as trustee to the wife's small estate, and had been one of the parties to the ante-nuptial contract which John Lexman had made before his marriage.
The estate revenues had increased very considerably.