"Just what are the things which you say troubled you?" he asked.
"First of all, the fact that this fellow Drevenoff has the free run of the Eastbury house. Suppose Warwick did not, after all, make off with the state paper you are seeking. Very likely it is still in the house. You know that the Pole is searching for it; at any moment he may find it, and if he does, how easy it would be for him to slip it in an envelope and mail it to a confederate."
"There is very little danger of his coming upon it now," said Ashton-Kirk quietly.
Fuller looked at him swiftly.
"You have learned, then, that it is not in the house!" he said.
Ashton-Kirk shook his head.
"As to that," said he, "I am not sure. But," and the singular eyes half closed as he spoke, "perhaps it does not make a great deal of difference."