The police, very properly, wanted to know things.
They desired to be informed what Racksole had been doing in the Dimmock affair, between his first visit to Ostend and his sending for them to take charge of Jules' dead body.

And Racksole was by no means inclined to tell them everything.

Beyond question he had transgressed the laws of England, and possibly also the laws of Belgium; and the moral excellence of his motives in doing so was, of course, in the eyes of legal justice, no excuse for such conduct.

The inquest upon Jules aroused some bother; and about ninety-and-nine separate and distinct rumours.

In the end, however, a compromise was arrived at.