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Three days after Madame Bohman's arrival, a special messenger brought me from Hecq in Paris three reports which, when I had read them, reduced me to a condition of blank despair.
The first was from the French Consul-General at Stockholm, who had been instructed to make the closest possible inquiry into the _bona fides_ of the shipbuilding and engineering firm of Engstrom and Linner, of Malmo. His report stated that he had paid a visit to Malmo, and as the result of his investigations there and elsewhere he had not the least doubt that they were a first-class firm, and it was a fact of considerable interest that they were employed by the Swedish Government upon several important contracts. No reason whatever could be suggested for doubting their sterling integrity, and the partners had never shown the slightest trace of pro-German bias, either as a firm or individually. This seemed a complete check to our suspicions.