The Place of Dragons: A Mystery

"Curious affair, isn\'t it?" "Very." "Now, you\'re a bit of a mystery-monger, Vidal. What\'s your theory—eh?" "I haven\'t one," I replied with a smile. "I knew the old boy quite well by sight. Didn\'t you?" asked my friend, Major Keppell, as we stood gossiping together in the doorway of the Hôtel de Paris, high up on the cliff opposite the pier at Cromer.