"When?"
"Not an hour ago; in fact, only a few minutes before I discovered your name on the register of this hotel."
"That was rather an odd coincidence, senator," said the detective dryly.
"Yes; if it was a coincidence-which I am inclined to doubt."
"Why?"
"Because it struck me that my seeing him and hearing of your presence at the same time would argue that he was around this neighborhood because he had been told of your arrival."
"I think there is no doubt of that. Where did you see him?"
"I almost ran into him directly in front of the Lafayette Square opera house."
"At what time, if you can tell me exactly?"
"An hour and a quarter ago."