'Well, I mean have you had any information of any definite danger—at the Foreign Office?'
'No; we shouldn't be likely to get any information of that kind at the Foreign Office. It would go, if there were any, to the Home Office?'
'Have you had any information from the Home Office?'
'Well, I may have had a hint—I don't know what ground there was for it—but I believe there was a hint given at the Home Office to be on the look-out for some fellows of a suspicious order from Gloria.'
Hamilton started. The words concurred exactly with the kind of warning he had just received from Dolores Paulo.
'I wonder who gave the hint,' he said meditatively. 'It would immensely add to the value of the information if I were to know who gave the hint.'
'Oh! So, then, you have had some information of your own?'
'Yes, I may tell you that I have; and I should be glad to know if both hints came from the same man.'
'Would it make the information more serious if they did?'
'To my mind, much more serious.'