"The two are in love with each other."
"Are you sure of that?"
"I have my eyes. But I begin to wonder."
"About what?"
"Whether or not Jones suspects me and is giving me rope to hang myself with. Not once have the police been called in and told what has really happened. They are totally at sea. And what has become of the man over the way?"
"By the Lord Harry!" exclaimed Braine, clapping his hands. "I believe I've solved that. We shot a man coming out of Hargreave's. Since then there's been no one across the way. One and the same man!"
"But that knowledge doesn't get us anywhere."
"No. You say they are in love?"
"Secretly. I don't believe the butler has an inkling of it. It is possible, however, that Susan has caught the trend of affairs. But, being rather romantic, she will in nowise interfere."
Braine smoked in silence. Presently a smile twisted his lips.