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Chief Inspector Stanislaus Oates:
What exactly are you up to? Or is it a state secret again?

Albert Campion:
I'm taking the short road as opposed to the long road.

Chief Inspector Stanislaus Oates:
Thank you very much, that's much clearer.

Albert Campion:
Or to express it in another way, it is the one occasion in a hundred when publicity would be catastrophic, official police involvement undesirable and it falls to the gifted private individual to take responsibility.

Chief Inspector Stanislaus Oates:
And you are taking responsibility for what?

Albert Campion:
The safety of a great national treasure, coupled with a spot of drastic eradication.