CHAPTER I

Around the corner of Norfolk Street a four-wheeled cab carried a nervous-looking man, who glanced out of the windows as if surprised at the height of the buildings on either side of him. He was an elderly man, thin of face and meagre of figure; the sleeves of his old-fashioned frock coat were all too short to cover his bony wrists; his long, thin fingers clasped and unclasped each other as the cab slackened its slow pace and came to a halt in front of an imposing pile of business offices, at the pavement of which a…