chief

Albert, then, had fallen into the hands of the famous bandit chief, in whose existence he had for so long a time refused to believe.

Now we might suppose that this murdered man—this Douglas whose approaching fate was known by one of the arch-criminal’s subordinates—had in some way betrayed the chief.

His chief of staff is Colonel Sebastian Moran, as aloof and guarded and inaccessible to the law as himself.

At three in the morning the chief Sussex detective, obeying the urgent call from Sergeant Wilson of Birlstone, arrived from headquarters in a light dog-cart behind a breathless trotter.