Ashton-Kirk laid the sheets down upon the table.
"There follows a list of the names of the people who have supplied this information and their addresses," said he. "Burgess is very thorough in his work."
"Outside the fact that Hume was a scoundrel—which we knew before—and that he was acquainted with Locke and Allan Morris's father, what does this report tell you?"
There was discontent in Pendleton's voice as he asked this question, and the investigator smiled as he made answer:
"That Hume knew the elder Morris supplies us with a theory as to the possible part which the younger Morris has taken in this drama. Whatever passed between Hume and the father has probably been taken up by the son."
"Why, yes," said Pendleton. "I hadn't thought of that."
"Another thing," added Ashton-Kirk: "The report has swung like the needle of a compass, and indicated a fact that my imagination suggested days ago."
"And that is—"
"That Hume once lived in the French town of Bayonne."
Pendleton frowned impatiently.