Chapter 8-10 Summary

Colonel Randolph Carbury delivers a letter to Katherine Kimberly from Eleanor Wingate of Brompton Hall, a woman with whom her father had an affair during World War Two. Wingate has discovered an old journal of her father's, and sends it to Kimberly as it contains valuable insight into the identity of Talbot, the insidious double agent who betrayed Americans to the Russians for decades. Kimberly arranges to pick up the journal from Carbury at an event that evening. As soon as Carbury leaves, Kimberly asks Tony Abrams to follow the older gentleman and find out where he is staying.

Abrams follows Carbury, who is aware of his tail and tries to lose Abrams before arriving at the University Club where he is staying. Abrams notifies a friend at the NYPD of Carbury's presence, and then calls two private detectives to watch...