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The day of the explosion in the operating theatre of Sir Charles Carrion's private hospital was a very busy one for Scotland Yard, for it was stretching out its tentacles in all directions.
It had been quite aware of the urgent operation that was going to be performed at 7 o'clock that morning, and, moreover, that a certain Professor Batcher, of Queen Anne's street, whose name did not appear upon the Medical Register, was going to give the anaesthetic. Also, it had surmised that the Chinaman who had called at Sir Charles's private residence the previous evening at 8 o'clock, and had not been seen to come out again, was presumably going to be the patient.