The Place of Dragons

"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 H tel de Paris, high up on the cliff opposite the pier at Cromer.