Chapter 47

‘The ordinary Bokel Mind,’ began Mr Campion oracularly. ‘Deep, mysterious, and replete with low cunning though it is, is nothing compared to the stupendous mental machines owned by those two losses to the criminal world, George Willsmore, and ’Anry, his brother—who pips him easily in the matter of duplicity, by the way. In all my wide experience I have never come across two such Napoleons of deceit. They staged and arranged the whole affair, whilst I looked on and admired. Such technique! ‘I persuaded your father,’…