The Double Traitor

Selingman, a schemer who works against the reader's side, judges a task to be simple. A young man will be wholly under the listener's control, and much of the listener's day will be spent in his company. The listener is told to report what kind of man he is: whether his readiness to take bribes comes from a rotten character or from a bitter sense of having been wronged. Selingman also raises a darker possibility, that the young man has been playing both sides. Should the slightest doubt arise, Francis Norgate's time is up.