“Ah!”
“Of course I wired to the other side. He had sailed in company with a lady, handsome and young. He was also good-looking and a young man.”
“Well?”
“When the two arrived on the other side, they turned out to be—an old man aged sixty-five, and a child, aged ten.”
“Oh!” said the Chief, as though he enjoyed the situation; “a clever rascal!”
“Well, I know where to look for him now—when I need him. I want to run down an important witness; then I shall make the arrest.”
“Good! We will have the particulars at that time. And now about this Englishman’s case; put what your ‘tracker’ has done into a report—or do you intend to work in the dark, like Stanhope?”
“Ah, what is Stanhope about?”
“I don’t know. He took his time; has not been seen or heard of here for four weeks.”
Vernet tapped the desk beside him, and looked thoughtfully at his vis-a-vis.