"It was through no consideration for him that I did so, Mr. Carter; you may be sure of that."
"Oh, I was sure enough of that at the time, sir. But all the same it appeared to me that a punishment of some kind would have been about the thing for him, then. Instead of that, you merely dismissed him and warned him to leave the country and to take his followers with him. I thought then that he would slip out of it, and what you tell me now proves that he has not gone."
"No; he didn't go."
"And he has made himself active again?"
"Decidedly so; yes."
"Along the same lines?"
"Practically the same... Of course, there is a difference. I don't think that he wishes me to guess that he has remained here. He possibly believes that I will think it is the activity of another, and that he has gone, as I ordered him to do."
"But you are sure that it is Mustushimi?"
"I haven't a doubt of it, Mr. Carter."
"You have not seem him?" No.