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I am here with solid, documentary evidence. I have it in this case." He opened his shabby dispatch case, and showed it full of papers. "It implicates," he continued, "an individual who holds a distinguished position on the staff of the Secretariat." M. Croza leant forward, interested, stimulated, not displeased. "You amaze me," he said. "Take a note, Alvarez, if you please."
Beechtree, we may take as certain, in this imperfect world. Yes.... He's an Englishman, I assume, this friend of yours?" "An Englishman, yes. Intensely an Englishman." Henry paused a moment. "I had better tell you at once; he is Charles Wilbraham." "Wilbraham!" M. Croza was startled. He felt no love for Wilbraham, who, for his part, felt and showed little for the Latin American republics.
M. Croza was clever, determined, and patriotic; he believed firmly in the future of the Latin American republics, and particularly in that of Paraguay; in the necessity of imbuing into the staff of the League of Nations more Latin American blood, and in the desirability of making Spanish a third official language in the Assembly.
M. Croza bitterly remembered various sneers which had been repeated to him.... Besides, it was Wilbraham who had cast suspicion on Paraguay. Further, he had been at Oxford with Wilbraham, and had disliked him there. "Go on, sir," he said gravely and yet ardently. "So," said Henry, "Wilbraham hatches a scheme. Levis has been in Geneva now for some days.
To him, already thus busy at ten o'clock in the morning, entered a hotel messenger with a card bearing the name of the correspondent of the British Bolshevist, and the words "Urgent and private business." "I suppose he wants a statement on the Paraguay attitude towards Argentine meat," M. Croza commented. "I had better see him." That will do for the present, señorita.... Admit Mr.
"There you are very right." ... But M. Croza, used to the political life of South American republics, found no stories of plots and intrigues really singular. "You have reason," he added, "to think badly of Mr. Wilbraham, I infer?" "Grave reasons. I know him for a very ugly character. It is high time he was exposed." M. Croza thought so too. As has been said, he did not care for Charles Wilbraham.
M. Croza, who was in a hurry, nodded affably but decidedly, and Henry, who was apt, in the interests of discussion, to forget himself, left him. Henry despatched straightway a long message to the British Bolshevist, guarded in language but sinister in implication, and hinting that further developments and more definite revelations were imminent.
Since I entered the room I heard a remark or two relating to myself and various friends of mine which struck me as somewhat strange...." M. Croza courteously bowed to him, with hostile eyes. "You have a right to an explanation, sir.
"Are we," he went on, "supposed to have spirited away, or even murdered, the missing delegates, may I ask?" "That," said M. Croza politely, "was Mr. Beechtree's suggestion only, of course, a suggestion, based on various facts which had come to his knowledge. You can, doubtless, disprove these facts, sir, or account for them in some other way.
"I have," he began, in his soft, light, tired voice, "a curious story to tell. I am in a position, after much search, to throw a good deal of light on the recent mysterious disappearances. I have evidence of a very serious nature indeed...." M. Croza, in his capacity of President of Committee 9, had become used to such evidence of late.
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