The Gold Comfit Box w/ Direct link technology (A Espionage Story)

It must be getting on for five years since I last had tidings of the redoubtable Dr. Grundt, once known and feared in the world of international espionage (by reason of a physical deformity) as "The Man With the Clubfoot." He was then said to be living on a small property he owned in Southern Germany, devoting himself, as I have heard, to the breeding of cats, an animal for which he displayed a peculiar predilection.
"How inexhaustible and alluring a study the cat!" I recollect his saying to...