Commissioner of the Criminal Intelligence Department, and Si

gently, "sit down, won't

g shrugged h

ischarged," he

anley

se there's no hope of connecting him a

ich the usher brought. I've been examining the usher again to-day, and all he can remember is that he saw somebody pushing through the crowd at the back of the court

ould be when he came into court. They had the dope ready, and they knew that the detectives would allow the usher to

. There's nothing else to do. I thought we had him this time, espe

lsbury wrote to the woman Marsh

Scotland Y

know who

in a plain envelope with a typewritten address and was sent to

to discover the documents

, "but it is a pretty hopeless business looking through London

as watching

putting Boundary in the dock. He's got a lot of public sympathy, too. Your thorough-paced rascal who escapes from the hands of the police has always a large f

laid a letter

," said that yo

took up the envelope an

o ought every officer who has been on this game. A few years ago I took exactly the same step--offered my resignation over a purely private and

oking down at h

shall ever catch

anley

and who, I suspect, was the person who sent you the Spillsbury letter--the Jack o' Judgment, doesn't he call himself? Do you know what I think?" he asked quietly. "I think t

ord s

ntoms, sir," he said, with a

ooked at hi

said carelessly, as he began to arrange the pap

ord f

her last night," he said stiff

her f

s silent fo

the case came into court and h

hief

e turns up I should keep a watchf

mean, sir?" a

ggestion," said the o

im on a sunny seat in Temple Gardens, for the day was fine and even warm, a

r own distress of mind, her doubts and fears. Evidently she knew the reason for

ied, in answer to her unspoken ques

would be simply monstrous if your career

lau

bout me," he said. "

my contracts; I ha

t she knew just what he meant,

pectable balance. I am closing the house at Horsham and storing the furniture,

going to do?" he

ook he

at a girl can do," she said vagu

crifice? Didn't yo

hesi

was always a very good mimic. When I was quite a

rowl of Dan Boundary. She laughed with glee at hi

tell me one thi

ou promised

redd

istian name but it sounds so like a su

want to ask?"

for a moment,

er implicated in thi

the

no

nisation and had been for years the colonel's right-hand man until the more subtle villainy of Pinto Silva, that Portuguese adventurer, had ousted him, and, if

but I think I am answered by your

is, that for the past few years he has played a very small p

ell you. For one thing, I am going to work to undo some of the mischief which the gang have wrought. I am going

n, eh?" he said wi

her heart. "There's something which tells me that, even if my father bui

d indeed forgott

"You intend to

no

traitor. Do you think they will leave me alone? Don't you think they are going to watch me day and night and get me

ly, and remembered the commissioner's warning.

e asked i

a dozen yards away and whose face

asked the gi

afford. "At present she has a mission too, which

the spy with a new inter

the number of times we have been literally thrown into one another's arms. Poor girl!" he sa

ing to rise, and waiting until they were out of sight, she walked out on to the Embankment and hailed a passing taxi. She s