“To let that old fellow go on. I don’t like his looks.”

“The old countryman?”

“Yes; I wish I had arrested him—him and his wife.”

“Arrested them?”

Stuart nodded.

“I have an instinct about rascals, Surry; and something tells me that I have been guilty of an imprudence.”

“Was not his explanation satisfactory?”

“No.”

“What could be wrong?”

“Everything.”