The Secret Adversary

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"That's so," admitted Julius. "Then one of the nurses was a crook and
listened at the door. How's that?"

"I don't see that it matters anyway," said Tommy wearily. "He may have
found out some months ago, and removed the papers, then----No, by Jove,
that won't wash! They'd have been published at once."

"Sure thing they would! No, some one's got ahead of us to-day by an hour
or so. But how they did it gets my goat."

"I wish that chap Peel Edgerton had been with us," said Tommy
thoughtfully.

"Why?" Julius stared. "The mischief was done when we came."

"Yes----" Tommy hesitated. He could not explain his own feeling--the
illogical idea that the K.C.'s presence would somehow have averted the