“There is where I think you make a mistake. You have not sized up Flynn correctly. That chap is a thorough desperado, and, at the same time, he is cunning.”
“Well, it’s certain he would not venture back into Belfast so soon after what has happened.”
“You think he would not dare, and I believe that is the very thing he would dare. He would reason that no one would expect him to come back here, and back here he would come. If he has returned here, he knows by this time that he did not kill you, Hodge, and once more he is dangerous, for he will try to get another crack at Frank.”
The reasoning of Diamond was beginning to impress Hodge.
“Well, I don’t see how you connect this with anything Hattie Hazle said to Frank,” he spoke.
“Hattie Hazle asked him to meet somebody, and he has gone to meet that person.”
“Well?”
“At first he refused. That showed it was no one he regarded as a friend.”
“It looks that way,” confessed Bart.
“Then he must have gone to meet an enemy. He maybe in danger. Let’s go look for him, Hodge.”