The last servants and late officials hurried into their places, the guards took their positions, and then, with a beating of the drums and a skirl of reed pipes, the whole group made its way back across the courtyard and up the stairs to the Window of Appearances between the palace and the Great Temple.

The slim young man told Poulsen that his name was Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu.

The first gold transaction, to four-fifths of its amount, would be by direct withdrawings of coin or bullion from the Bank of England.

So this is a plot to shield this arch-fiend, and I have detected it. A word from me, and three heads besides his would roll from their shoulders!