Dr. Graham explained briefly.
"Perhaps," said the visitor, "I can throw some light upon your loss."
"You! How?"
"I happened to be coming over from Brooklyn an hour since on the same boat with that young man there," he said, quietly.
Sam turned pale. There was something in the speaker's tone that frightened him.
CHAPTER XXV. — BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
Sam would have been glad to leave the office, but he knew that to ask would be to subject him to increased suspicion. Besides, the stranger might not be intending to accuse him.
Dr. Graham's attention was excited, and he asked, "Do you know anything of this matter, Mr. Clement?"