“I certain can’t help being some wrought up, partner,” he said. “I reckon you would be in my place.”
“Without doubt. But we are here now, and we’ll look after Nadia. Hafsa Pasha’s little scheme of abduction won’t go.”
“Sure not; but it wasn’t that I was thinking of.”
“It wasn’t?”
“No.”
“Well, then——”
“Budthorne let the cat out of the bag.”
“I don’t understand.”
“He didn’t make a clean breast of it when he first told the story. I’ve been talking with him since we arrived here at the hotel. I trapped him by asking questions.”
“Why, what do you mean by saying you trapped him?”