Excerpt from The Lost Naval Papers
At the beginning of the month of September, 1916, there appeared in The Cornhill Magazine a story entitled "The Lost Naval Papers." I had told this story at second-hand, for the incidents had not occurred within my personal experience. One of the principals - to whom I had allotted the temporary name of Richard Cary - was an intimate friend, but I had never met the Scotland Yard officer whom I called William Dawson, and was not at all anxious to make his official acquaintance. To me he then seemed an inhuman, icy-blooded "sleuth," a being of great national importance, but repulsive and dangerous as an associate. Yet by a turn of Fortune"s wheel I came not only to know William Dawson, but to work with him, and almost to like him. His penetrative efficiency compelled ones admiration, and his unconcealed vanity showed that he did not stand wholly outside the human family. Yet I never felt safe with Dawson.
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