"Personally, I never doubted this, Chief Inspector," he declared. "I
believed, and I still believe, that the people who traffic in drugs
are clever enough to keep in the good books of the local police. It is
a case of clever camouflage, rather than corruption."
"Ah," snapped Kerry. "I was waiting to hear you mention it. So long as
we know. I'm not a man that stands for being pointed at. I've got a
boy at a good public school, but if ever he said he was ashamed of his
father, the day he said it would be a day he'd never forget!"
Seton Pasha smiled grimly and changed the topic.
"Let us see," he said, "if we are any nearer to the heart of the
mystery of Kazmah. You were at the Regent Street bank today, I
understand, at which the late Sir Lucien Pyne had an account?"
"I was," replied Kerry. "Next to his theatrical enterprises his chief
source of income seems to have been a certain Jose Santos Company, of
Buenos Ayres. We've traced Kazmah's account, too. But no one at the
bank has ever seen him. The missing Rashid always paid in. Checks were
signed 'Mohammed el-Kazmah,' in which name the account had been
opened. From the amount standing to his credit there it's evident that
the proceeds of the dope business went elsewhere.
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