night. Embarrassed, he turns down her suggestion that he should sleep in her compartment to keep an eye on her. He does agree to sleep in the connecting washroom. In the hours of darkness, Roberts thinks that he hears a noise coming from her compartment. He quickly enters it. She has gone and there is a smell of chloroform in the air. At the end of the carriage, Roberts spots the sleeping conductor and his discarded jacket and cap. Disguising himself as that official, he gets Vassilievitch to open his door. Roberts pushes past him, locks the Russian out and unties the bound and gagged girl. They wait in the man's compartment until the next morning and upon arrival in Paris go on an extended run through the city in a bid to shake off any pursuers. The duo fly from Le Bourget to Croydon where they are met by a man identified as Count Paul Stepanyi (who looks similar to the tall bearded man in Geneva) who takes them to a country house. The stockings are handed over and Mr. Roberts is given a jewel-encrusted order in a Morocco case as thanks. He is also introduced to the girl properly – the Grand Duchess Olga. After Mr. Roberts has gone, the Grand Duchess, aka Madeleine de Sara, in reality Maggie Sayers, goes home to Streatham. Pyne meets with Bonnington again. The plans were successfully transferred and he admits to giving his courier another more embellished story as a gun would seem too mundane. Three agents of the other side meet in Paris, annoyed that their plans failed and they blame each other for their loss. Mr. Roberts sits at home reading a book. Pyne sends onto him a cheque for fifty pounds with thanks from "certain people". Mr. Roberts is more than satisfied that he has had his bit of adventure. The Case of the Rich Woman Parker Pyne receives an original problem from his latest customer: Mrs. Abner Rymer is the widow of a man who worked out a new engineering process which made him a rich man. She was a farmgirl who was courted by Rymer and married him when they had no money and lived through years of gruelling poverty. When he first struck his riches, the two people at first enjoyed their new life of luxury. But the novelty of servants, foreign trips, expensive clothes