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million I'm going to discover who Mr. Jack o' Judgment is when he's at home." He dismissed Crewe and gave fresh instructions to his driver, and ten minutes later he was stepping out of his limousine at the entrance to Scotland Yard. Stafford King was not in, or at any rate was not available. Greatly daring, the colonel sent his card to the First Commissioner. Sir Stanley Belcom read the name and raised his eyebrows. "Show him in," he said, and for the second time the colonel was ushered into the presence of the chief. "Well, colonel," said Sir Stanley, "this is rather a dreadful business." "Terrible, terrible!" said the colonel, shaking his head. "Solomon White was one of my best friends. I've been searching for him for weeks." "So I've heard," said Sir Stanley dryly. "Have you any theory?" "None whatever." "What about this man called Raoul? Is he unknown to you?" asked Sir Stanley. "That's what I've come to see you about, sir," said the colonel in a confidential tone. "You remember the last time I was here, you suggested that possibly the murderer of poor Gregory might be a Frenchman. _You_ remember how you told me that these French assassins have a trick of leaving some fantastic card or sign of their handiwork?" Sir Stanley nodded. "Well, here you have the same thing repeated," said the colonel triumphantly, "and the identical card. Do you think, sir, that the murderer of my poor friend Gregory and my poor friend White was the same man?" "In fact, Raoul?" asked Sir Stanley. The colonel nodded, and for a few moments Sir Stanley communed with his well-kept finger-nails. "I don't think it will do any harm if I tell you that that is my theory also, Colonel Boundary," he said, "and, giving confidence for confidence, would you have any objection to telling me whether Raoul is one of your--er--business associates?" There was just the slightest shade of irony in the last two words, but the colonel preferred to ignore it. "I'm very glad you asked me that question, sir," he said with a sigh, so palpably a sigh of relief that the recording angel might be excused if he were deceived. "I have never seen Raoul before. In fact, my knowledge of Frenchmen is a very small one. I do very little business in France, and I certainly do no business at all with men of that class." "What class?" asked the other quickly. The colonel shrugged his big shoulders. "I am only going on what the newspape
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