"Have you heard anything yet of the stolen bonds?"
"Not yet."
"Have you any suspicion?"
"None that I am at liberty to mention," answered Duncan, looking mysterious.
"I suppose you no longer suspect that boy Luke?"
"I don't know. The man who owns to having given him the tin box for safe-keeping is, in my opinion, a suspicious character. I shouldn't be at all surprised if he were a jailbird."
The small man already referred to, who occupied a seat just across the aisle, here smiled slightly, but whether at the president's remark, is not clear.
"What did he call himself?"
"Roland Reed—no doubt an alias."
"It seems to me you ought to follow him up, and see if you can't convict him of the theft."