“But cannot you be more explicit?” asked Rolfe. “Who is the assassin—the murderer of children?”
“At present I can say no more than what I have already told you,” was the diplomat’s grave response.
“You believe that the same motive has led to the Doctor’s disappearance as was the cause of the bomb outrage at Topschieder?”
“I do.”
“Then much depends upon the Doctor’s death?”
“Very much. His enemies would reap a large profit.”
“His enemies in the Skuptchina, you mean?”
“Those—and others.”
“He had private enemies also—secret ones that were even more dangerous than the blatant political orators.”
“Then private vengeance was the cause?”