“I wonder you have not thought of it, Carter,” grinned the rascal.
Nick’s eyes took on a more threatening gleam. He now felt sure that this man did not suspect his relationship with Clayton, or know anything definite about his early life, as he already had predicted to Mrs. Clayton.
“Oh, I have thought of it, Guelpa,” he said, a bit curtly. “Don’t think me quite a lunkhead. I knew the crook had garments and a pin like Clayton’s. I know also when the scarfpin was duplicated. It was when you rascals abducted Clayton three months ago.”
Guelpa’s face changed like a flash.
“How did you learn that?” he cried.
“I have methods of my own for obtaining information.”
“You have, eh?”
“And that’s not all I know, Guelpa,” Nick added.
“Is that so?”
“Far from it.”