"Yes. Fire ahead. Wait! Will you take whisky?"
"No, thanks. Yes, I'll take a cigar."
"Henry Clay," said Bawdsey, passing along a box; "and the questions?"
"You are a private inquiry agent?" asked George, when the cigar was well alight and Bawdsey had subsided into a chair.
"That's so. Vidocq & Company--an attractive title, I guess."
"And you were employed by Lola to watch me?"
"I was. Love will do anything for the object of its affections."
"Humph! there are different ways of looking at that. But you were also engaged by Lord Derrington to watch me?"
Bawdsey did not display the least surprise. "That's very creditable to your observation, Mr. Brendon. It's true."
"How did Lord Derrington find out that I was passing under the name of George Brendon?"