"I can't tell you."
"Oh! you know it, then?"
"Well, yes."
"And you won't tell me?"
"No!"
Calton, however, had found out two things that pleased him; first, that Fitzgerald had an appointment, and, second that it had been with a woman. He pursued another line.
"When did you last see Whyte!"
Brian answered with great reluctance, "I saw him drunk by the Scotch Church."
"What! you were the man who hailed the hansom?"
"Yes," assented the other, hesitating slightly, "I was!"