"He knows what I did two years ago."
"Croucher, of course?"
"He said it was you—that you gave me away to him in Switzerland!"
"And you believed him?"
"He made it just credible. He said you told him in confidence; he showed me a letter in which you reminded him not to let it go any further."
"A forgery!"
"I see that now; but it was a very good one, written on your club paper."
"The man's an expert forger. Anybody can go into a club to write a note and steal some stationery. If only you had tackled me about it!"
"I promised I wouldn't. I could hardly believe it of you, all the same—not that you were the first to tell him. But—but it did put me off—in spite of everything—and that was only in July."
"Just when I was trying to see you, to put you on your guard!"