The Man in the Brown Suit

Kilmorden
Castle,
which left Cape Town in two days’ time. I had just time to journey down and catch
the same boat.
“I had no intention of alarming Carton by revealing my presence on board. I had done a
good deal of acting in my time at Cambridge, and it was comparatively easy for me to
transform myself into a grave bearded gentleman of middle age. I avoided Carton carefully
on board the boat, keeping to my own cabin as far as possible under the pretence of illness.
“I had no difficulty in trailing him when we got to London. He went straight to an hotel
and did not go out until the following day. He left the hotel shortly before one o’clock. I was
behind him. He went straight to a house agent in Knightsbridge. There he asked for