"Sounds like some fellow with a grouch against Kerensky and Lvov. I know enough Russian to make out that much—"
"Evidently one of the Revolutionary officials?"
"Seems so," the Captain said. "You'll notice what he has to say about the mixup with the Russian Royal family at Tobolsk and Tumen. There's a lot of our fellows who don't take any stock in that assassination business at 'Katerinburg."
"I began to read: 'I had walked from Euston Station to Madame Tussaud's, when the messenger jumped from his motorcycle and rushed up to me—' Your diarist starts out in London, I see."
"Yes, he is some globe trotter—"
"'"Go to Birdcage and walk slowly back to Queen Victoria Memorial. As you pass Buckingham, observe the heavily veiled lady wearing white lace wristlets who will follow on behind. Let her overtake you. If she utters the correct phrase, go with her at once to Admiralty Arch and follow the Life Guard to the War Office. Meet number … there; receive a small orange-colored packet, wear the shirt he gives you, and cross the Channel at once"'—I see! From Buckingham Palace to the War Office; sounds interesting."
"It is; that fellow is all there!" complimented the Captain.
"'The meeting at the Huis ten-Bosch points to Wilhelmstrasse.
Nothing can be done here. They suspect Downing Street.'—Ah, at The
Hague, and at the ten-Bosch too, where the Czar and Andrew Carnegie
held their first Peace Conference in 1899; this looks significant!"
"Keep going," said the Captain; "that fellow's got 'The Man in the
Iron Mask' brushed off the map."
"Here is something singular about Berlin. Your man walks through the lines like a wraith—"