"
"As soon as any criminal case arises from Anthony Palliser's
disappearance," Tallente pointed out, "you will be in a position to ask
me questions from a different standpoint. For the present I have given
you just as much information as I feel inclined to. Shall we leave it
at that?"
The inspector appeared to have become hard of hearing. He did not
attempt to rise from his chair.
"Being your private secretary, sir," he said, "the Honourable Anthony
Palliser would no doubt have access to your private papers?"
"Naturally," Tallente conceded.
"There might be amongst them papers of importance, papers whose
possession by parties in the other camp of politics--"
"Stop!" Tallente interrupted. "Inspector Gillan, you are an astute man.
Excuse me."
He crossed the room and, with a key which he took from a chain attached
to his trouser button, opened a small but powerful safe fitted into the
wall. He opened it confidently enough, gazed inside and remained for a
moment transfixed. Then he took up a few little packets of papers,
glanced them through and replaced them.
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