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"
Why
?
"
I
asked
in
amazement
.
"
Principally
because
I
received
a
letter
from
Scudder
.
I
knew
something
of
the
man
,
and
he
did
several
jobs
for
me
.
He
was
half
crank
,
half
genius
,
but
he
was
wholly
honest
.
The
trouble
about
him
was
his
partiality
for
playing
a
lone
hand
.
That
made
him
pretty
well
useless
in
any
Secret
Service
--
a
pity
,
for
he
had
uncommon
gifts
.
I
think
he
was
the
bravest
man
in
the
world
,
for
he
was
always
shivering
with
fright
,
and
yet
nothing
would
choke
him
off
.
I
had
a
letter
from
him
on
the
31st
of
May
.
"
"
But
he
had
been
dead
a
week
by
then
.
"
"
The
letter
was
written
and
posted
on
the
23rd
.
He
evidently
did
not
anticipate
an
immediate
decease
.
His
communications
usually
took
a
week
to
reach
me
,
for
they
were
sent
under
cover
to
Spain
and
then
to
Newcastle
.
He
had
a
mania
,
you
know
,
for
concealing
his
tracks
.
"
"
What
did
he
say
?
"
I
stammered
.
"
Nothing
.
Merely
that
he
was
in
danger
,
but
had
found
shelter
with
a
good
friend
,
and
that
I
would
hear
from
him
before
the
15th
of
June
.
He
gave
me
no
address
,
but
said
he
was
living
near
Portland
Place
.
I
think
his
object
was
to
clear
you
if
anything
happened
.
When
I
got
it
I
went
to
Scotland
Yard
,
went
over
the
details
of
the
inquest
,
and
concluded
that
you
were
the
friend
.
We
made
inquiries
about
you
,
Mr
Hannay
,
and
found
you
were
respectable
.
I
thought
I
knew
the
motives
for
your
disappearance
--
not
only
the
police
,
the
other
one
too
--
and
when
I
got
Harry
's
scrawl
I
guessed
at
the
rest
.
I
have
been
expecting
you
any
time
this
past
week
.
"
You
can
imagine
what
a
load
this
took
off
my
mind
.
I
felt
a
free
man
once
more
,
for
I
was
now
up
against
my
country
's
enemies
only
,
and
not
my
country
's
law
.
"
Now
let
us
have
the
little
note-book
,
"
said
Sir
Walter
.
It
took
us
a
good
hour
to
work
through
it
.
I
explained
the
cypher
,
and
he
was
jolly
quick
at
picking
it
up
.
He
emended
my
reading
of
it
on
several
points
,
but
I
had
been
fairly
correct
,
on
the
whole
.
His
face
was
very
grave
before
he
had
finished
,
and
he
sat
silent
for
a
while
.
