“Then I may have something to tell YOU.”
Tom nodded, and turned away to his duties. The Mining Secretary and myself could scarcely wait to reach the street before we turned eagerly on Manners.
“Well?”
“Well; the woman you saw was Tom's runaway wife, and Tournelli the man she ran away with.”
“And Tom knew it?”
“Can't say.”
“And you mean to say that all this while Tom never suspected HIM, and even did not recognize HER just now?”
Manners lifted his hat and passed his fingers through his hair meditatively. “Ask me something easier, gentlemen.”