"None at all. He spoke English perfectly. I'd take my oath he was an Englishman." "Raegenssen himself without face fungus!" exclaimed Teal. "I always thought that accent of his was a fake--it sounded too much like the cheap revue idea of a Dutchman. It was Raegenssen." "Or Mattock cleverly padded," added the sceptical Kit. "If you were going to do a deal in my name wouldn't you try to make up to look like me in a general description?" The mention of Mattock recalled to Teal his prisoner's request, and he would have mentioned it as they returned to the Yard, but Storm was already off on another tack. "You remember Miss Hawthorne told me over the phone she'd recognised someone in that getaway? Well, she won't pass the glad news on unless I promise she's to have a part in the play. Rat all women!" "Arrest her as an accessory," suggested Teal sardonically. "I'd be happier if she was inside! _Kill H_.... Teal, if you go down and break the neck of that constable who fell over himself last night I'll guarantee to rescue you from the gallows! He's put everything back by weeks. By the way, did that ad. go in the _Era_?" "To-morrow," said Teal. "I put it over on Birdie all right. Mattock said I was a great actor," he added reminiscently, and recollected his promise. Teal waited in the charge room while Storm paid a visit to the clerk's cell, and picked up a newspaper to while away the time. In those days the Press was so full of the Triangle that most other information was crowded away into obscure paragraphs in small type which few people ever read. Teal, having a single-track mind, rarely had time to assimilate any news which did not bear directly on the case in hand, and politics concerned him not at all. But he already knew the Triangle news by heart, and the second manifesto was by then as familiar to him as his own face. Consequently, he broke his usual habits and cast an eye over the other happenings of the world. And one section fairly leapt to his eye. DEATH OF A GREAT SCIENTIST DEPORTED AUSTRIAN CHEMIST COMMITS SUICIDE UNCOMPLETED WORK (_Daily Mercury Special Correspondent_) VIENNA, Tuesday, June 3rd. A drama of real life is locked up in the news of the death of the Austrian scientist, Carl Schewesen, who was deported from England some years ago. Schewesen's clothes were found on the banks of the Danube, together with a note explaining that he was taking what seemed to him to be the only way out of a hopeless existence.