“Which reminds me of my fifteen shillings,” replied the other.
“How?”
“This way. Detective Freyberger brings me a bust to reconstruct. Now, detective officers, however clever, do not as a rule call upon me with busts to be reconstructed without a motive. Do you know whom that piece of marble represents?”
“No.”
Antonides rubbed his hands together. “Would you give me fifteen shillings to learn?”
“I would.”
“Well, I already know that you are on the Gyde case, which is in all the papers.”
“Who told you?”
“That bust, and you confirmed my knowledge by admitting the fact.”
“It may be a speaking likeness of some one, but I doubt if it is so full of speech as that.”