Chapter 16

“New evidence respecting the sudden death of Professor Zeitland, the German Egyptologist, came to hand. I was satisfied that she was concerned. I sent Fletcher to interview her. . . . “She had disappeared. We lost track of her for more than a week. All inquiries drew blank; until, by a great stroke of luck, the French police identified her at Marseilles. She had sailed for Egypt. “Good enough for me! I set out at once with Fletcher! Perhaps I shall be better understood if I say that the chief commissioner _sent_ me…