"No, not so," Nick quickly objected. "That’s the trouble. That’s why he is in wrong, unless I am much mistaken."
"You mean——”
"If he had recognized Goulard, he would have arrested him on the spot," Nick interposed. "The circumstances admit of only one interpretation."
"Namely?"
"Patsy supposed him to be the elder Mantell, and the fact that he was calling on Sadie Badger, or some other serious suspicion concerning him, led Patsy to pursue the taxicab. There’s no other way of sizing it up."
"He may have recognized Helen Mantell," Chick suggested.
"That is not probable," Nick again objected. "Goulard[Pg 34] would not have been running around with her in a taxicab, unless she was completely drugged and carefully veiled."
"Not likely, Nick, I’ll admit," Chick nodded.
"I’m sure of it."
"But what sent Goulard to see Sadie Badger?" Chick questioned. "Why did he take such a risk?"