The Crime at Black Dudley · Chapter 11 (2/2)

“The ‘Trois Pays’ man?” he said quickly.

“And ‘Der Schwarzbund.’ And ‘The Chicago Junker,’ and now our own little ‘0072’ at the Yard,” said Mr. Campion, and there was no facetiousness in his tone.

“This means nothing to me,” said Prenderby.

Mr. Campion opened his mouth to speak, but Abbershaw was before him.

“It means, Michael,” he said, with an inflection in his voice which betrayed the gravity in which he viewed the situation, “that this man controls organized gangs of crooks all over Europe and America, and he has the reputation of being utterly ruthless and diabolically clever. It means we are up against the most dangerous and notorious criminal of modern times.”