"Why, sir, he's been calling her up again."
"Who?"
"Mr. Shattuck, I mean."
Kennedy merely glanced at me. The virus had begun to work.
"What did he say?" asked Kennedy, quickly.
"I couldn't just make out what it was about. He wasn't very definite. Said he wanted to see her alone."
"And Mrs. Wilford?"
"Said she couldn't—that she was afraid—afraid for him, she said. I guess she knows pretty well how we're watching her."
"What did Shattuck say to that?"
"Well, I should say he was trying to warn her," replied McCabe, "without coming out too definitely. You see, they were both pretty careful in the words they used. There's something strange between that pair, you can be sure of that."