"
Senor Rodriguez, the minister from Venezuela, found the gold in his safe
on the following morning, with a brief note from Mr. Grimm, in which
there was no explanation of how or where it had been found.... And two
hours later Monsieur Boissegur, ambassador from France to the United
States, disappeared from the embassy, vanished!
XII
THE VANISHING DIPLOMATIST
It was three days after the ambassador's disappearance that Monsieur
Rigolot, secretary of the French embassy and temporary
_charge-d'affaires_, reported the matter to Chief Campbell in the Secret
Service Bureau, adding thereto a detailed statement of several singular
incidents following close upon it. He told it in order, concisely and to
the point, while Grimm and his chief listened.
"Monsieur Boissegur, the ambassador, you understand, is a man whose
habits are remarkably regular," he began. "He has made it a rule to be
at his desk every morning at ten o'clock, and between that time and one
o'clock he dictates his correspondence, and clears up whatever routine
work there is before him. I have known him for many years, and have
been secretary of the embassy under him in Germany and Japan and this
country.
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