Reilly returns from a failed mission to Naples to locate Australian oil developer D'Arcy and persuade him into signing a contract with Britain. He is shocked and feels betrayed when Fothergill tells him that his wife Margaret has run off with a "Bloomsbury type" and is currently in Paris as is D'Arcy, who leaves for the Riviera yacht of Baron Rothschild, who is acting as a surrogate for French government. Reilly gets his intelligence from Widdemeyer, who, when he updates him and passes along the information that Anna, tells him of the whereabouts of his half-sister Anna, a fledgling pianist and courier for Russian revolutionaries.
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