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"I don't quite follow," Roy said, as he glanced from the paper to Lantary. "The whole thing is so inexplicably involved that it looks almost like a problem of Euclid to me. Mind, I haven't forgotten what you told me, but--here, Peter, old man, let's make some sort of a start at the beginning. In the first place, why did you go off and leave us so abruptly last night?"
"Because I had to," Lantary explained. "It was imperative that I should follow Martin, when he was carrying the unconscious body of Professor Rogers to the countess's house, because I had to know exactly what was going on. So I left Alcie and yourself, together with Wren not very far away, and tracked Martin as far as I wanted to shadow him. In the meanwhile, what did you do?"