When I told Agatha, she nearly fainted.
CHAPTER XXIII
No sooner had I moved into Barbara's Building and was preparing to begin my salaried duties than I received news which sent me off post haste to Berlin. And just as it was not I but Anastasius Papadopoulos who discovered Captain Vauvenarde, so, in this case, it was Dale who discovered Lola.
He burst in upon me one day, flourishing a large visiting-card, which he flung down on the table before my eyes.
“Do you recognise that?”
It was the familiar professional card of the unhappy Anastasius.
“Yes.”
“Do you see the last line?”
I read “London Agents: Messrs. Conto and Blag, 172 Maiden Lane, W.C.” I looked up. “Well?” I asked.