“How could he trace us to Edinburgh? How much easier to trace us from Edinburgh here than from London to Edinburgh!”
“I think he appeared in Edinburgh by chance, without knowing we were there.”
“I do not,” declared the girl decidedly. “I think he followed us in some manner.”
Budthorne did not like to believe this.
“You give him credit for the acumen of a Sherlock Holmes. Bunol is no detective.”
“He is a human bloodhound! You do not know how much I fear him, Dunbar.”
“You say that man was here in this house a few minutes ago?”
“Yes.”
“You have seen the landlady since?”
“Yes.”