"Don't come out," urged Karl.
"Just a step or two."
Karl submitted: he felt secure enough against active danger to-night. But it was in these trifles that Adam's natural incaution betrayed itself.
"Karl, did you tell all you knew?" he began as they plunged into the maze. "Was there more behind that you would not speak before the wife?"
"I told you all, Adam. It is bad enough."
"It might be worse. Suppose they were looking after me, for instance, instead of this fellow Salter! I shall baffle them; I don't fear."
"Adam, you shall not come farther. If the man got in one night, he may get in another. Goodbye."
"Goodbye, dear old anxious fellow!"
"Go in, and get the door barred."
"All right. A last good night to you!"