The Secret Adversary

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"Undoubtedly, Mr. Hersheimmer, since she was able to give her real name.
I thought you had appreciated that point."

"And you just happened to be on the spot," said Tommy. "Seems quite like
a fairy tale."

But Sir James was far too wary to be drawn.

"Coincidences are curious things," he said dryly.

Nevertheless Tommy was now certain of what he had before only suspected.
Sir James's presence in Manchester was not accidental. Far from
abandoning the case, as Julius supposed, he had by some means of his own
successfully run the missing girl to earth. The only thing that puzzled
Tommy was the reason for all this secrecy. He concluded that it was a
foible of the legal mind.