“Right for him to suspect you?” asked Patsy, undaunted by the blaze that had arisen in the physician’s eyes.
“Don’t josh me, Garvan, nor try to evade me,” Guelpa fiercely threatened. “If you do, I’ll have your infernal life. Tell me—does Carter think I committed that robbery?”
“How can I tell?” retorted Patsy defiantly. “I’m not a mind reader.”
“You know what he suspects.”
“No, I don’t,” Patsy insisted. “There is one thing I do know, however.”
“What is that?”
“That if he suspects you, Doctor Guelpa, he never so much as mentioned it to me.”
“Is that true?”
“True as gospel,” said Patsy; and it was.
Doctor Guelpa hesitated for a moment, while Draper put in with an assurance evincing his relations with the other: