The manager had received orders to organize a vast system of espionage, and then to dismiss quietly, one by one, the dangerous men who were suspected of having had a hand in the crime.
Le directeur avait reçu l'ordre d'organiser un vaste systeme d'espionnage, puis de congédier un a un, sans bruit, les hommes dangereux, soupçonnés d'avoir trempé dans le crime.