“I think he gambles.”
“Ha! this is important. What makes you think so?”
“He seems to be intimate with a man who, I am told, is a well-known gambler.”
“Who is it?”
“Dick Ralston.”
“Ralston is as well known as any gambler in the city. How is it that this has not excited the suspicions of Mr. Fairchild?”
“I don’t think Mr. Fairchild knows it.”
“Then Ralston doesn’t come into the office?”
“He did not when Mr. Fairchild was in town. As soon as Mr. Fairchild left he came at once, and now spends considerable time there.”
“Probably Mullins owes him money lost in gambling.”