"Connected with this affair?"
"I think so. But I don't want it blazed forth in the Record till I'm sure."
"The Record doesn't blaze forth everything I know," he said quietly.
"I know it doesn't, but you'd give it this—it would have a right to this."
"Is it so important as all that?"
"I rather fancy it's the clue we've been looking for."
His eyes were shining now as he looked at me.
"That is important," he said. "I should like to have it."
"I'm not absolutely sure," I said, again. "But I'm going to see him again this evening. If there's anything I can tell you after that, I will."
"That's fair enough," he assented. "The story, whatever it is, is bound to be public property in a few days, I suppose?"