“I have no desire to see Kara,” was the short reply.
“Well, Mr. Lexman,” broke in the Chief, “I don't think you are going to have any difficulty about your escape. By the way, I suppose it was by aeroplane?”
Lexman nodded.
“And you had an assistant?”
Again Lexman nodded.
“Unless you press me I would rather not discuss the matter for some little time, Sir George,” he said, “there is much that will happen before the full story of my escape is made known.”
Sir George nodded.
“We will leave it at that,” he said cheerily, “and now I hope you have come back to delight us all with one of your wonderful plots.”
“For the time being I have done with wonderful plots,” said John Lexman in that even, deliberate tone of his. “I hope to leave London next week for New York and take up such of the threads of life as remain. The greater thread has gone.”
The Chief Commissioner understood.