He studied the photograph and compared it with the grave face before him.
"I have done this before," said Curran, "with the same result. You are ten years older than Tom Jones, and you are as clearly Arthur Dillon as he was Tom Jones."
The young man and the Captain sighed together.
"Oh, I brought in others, clever and experienced," said Curran, "to try what a fresh mind could do to help me, but in vain."
"There must have been something hard about Tom Jones," said Arthur, "when he was able to stay away and make no sign after his child was born."
The Captain burst into a mocking laugh, which escaped him before he could repress the inclination.
"He may never have heard of it, and if he did his wife's reputation——"
"I see," said Arthur Dillon smiling, convinced that Captain Curran knew more of Sonia Westfield than he cared to tell. At the detective's request the matter was dropped as one that did him harm; but he complimented Arthur on the shrewdness of his suggestions, which indeed had given him new views without changing his former opinions.