Fay glanced about the room. “If you get a good chart I’ll show you,� he said.

Sir Richard rubbed his hands. “That’ll keep,� he declared. “We’ll remember it, though. Now, Fay, one other matter before I turn you over to MacKeenon.�

“What is it?�

“How did it happen that you went to Arendal? What took you there?�

“I was trying to connect with a man named Harry Raymond.�

“Ace-in-the-hole Harry?�

“Yes! The deep-sea cardsharper!�

“What did you want to meet him for?�

“Last time I saw him he wore a pair of glasses like the pair I threw away on the Holland coast. Saidee made me go after him—or suggested that I should.â€�

“No, it was his idea,� said the girl staunchly.