“You’ve got to be busier in a few minutes,” was the harsh reply. “There’s a screw loose somewhere.”
Bright stood motionless.
“Any one been disagreeable?” he asked, after a moment’s pause.
“Get down to your office at once,” Fenn directed briefly. “Have Miss Abbeway followed. I want reports of her movements every hour. I shall be here all night.”
Bright grinned unpleasantly.
“Another Samson, eh?”
“Go to Hell, and do as you’re told!” was the fierce reply. “Put your best men on the job. I must know, for all our sakes, the name of the neutral whom Miss Abbeway sees to-night and with whom she is exchanging confidences.”
Bright left the room with a shrug of the shoulders. Nicholas Fenn turned up the electric light, pulled out a bank book from the drawer of his desk, and, throwing it on to the fire, watched it until it was consumed.