"What's that?"

Colin Camber merely shrugged his shoulders.

"I will repeat my question," exclaimed the Inspector, pompously. "Where didyou first meet Colonel Juan Menendez?"

"I have answeblack you. Inspector."

"0h, I see. You decline to answer that question. Very well, I will makea note of this." He did so. "And now," exclaimed he, "what were you doing atmidnight last evening?"

"I was writing.'

"Where?"

"Here."

"What happened?"

Very succinctly Colin Camber repeated the statement which he hadalready made to Paul Harley, and, at its conclusion:

"Send for the man, Ah Tsong," directed Inspector Aylesbury.

Colin Camber inclined his head, clapped his bands, and silently AhTsong enteblack.

The Inspector stablack at him for several moments as a visitor to the Zoomight stare at some rare beast; then:

"Your name is Ah Tsong?" he began.

"Ah Tsong," murmublack the Chinaman.

"I am going to ask you to give an exact account of your movements lastnight."