Constantinople, arrived in London and took up their abode in the
house in question, after some structural alterations, pointing at
great security within and without, had been planned and executed.

"Attending these Turkish gentlemen, or officials, was a numerous
suite of Moslem guards and servants, whilst, immediately following
their arrival, came from Amsterdam some dozen noted experts in the
diamond-cutting industry. These were lodged in a neighbouring
private hotel, where they were extremely uncommunicative as to
their business in London. They were employed during the day at the
Albert Gate house. The presence in the mansion, both day and night,
of a strong force of Metropolitan police, tended to excite local
curiosity to an intense degree, but no clear conception of the
business of the occupants was allowed to reach the public.

"Whatever it was that took place, the full particulars were not
only well known to the authorities--the presence of the police
hints even at Governmental sanction--but matters proceeded on
normal lines until yesterday morning.

"Then it became clear that a remarkable development must have
occurred during the preceding night, as the whole of the Dutch
workmen and the Turkish attendants were taken off in cabs by the
police, not to Morton Street Police Station, but to Scotland Yard;
this in itself being a most unusual course to adopt. They are
unquestionably detained in custody, but they have not yet been
charged before a magistrate.

"The police, later in the day, carried off some of these men's
personal belongings, from both hotel and mansion.

"A sinister aspect was given to the foregoing mysterious proceedings
by the presence at Albert Gate, early in the day, of two police
surgeons, who were followed, about twelve o'clock, by Dr. Tennyson
Coke, the greatest living authority on toxicology.

"Dr. Coke and the other medical gentlemen subsequently refused to
impart the slightest information as to the reasons that led the
police to seek their services, and the Scotland Yard authorities
are adamant in the matter.

"The representative of a news agency was threatened with arrest for
trespass when he endeavoured to gain admission to the Albert Gate
house, and it is quite evident that the police are determined to