“A great deal happened, and very little happened,” he replied, smiling.
“Tell me about it, Mr. Carter,” she asked.
“Jimmy is a great bluffer,” replied Nick. “He is also a brave man, for one in his position. To tell you the truth, Nan, if what he says is half the truth, he holds trumps at the present moment. Can you guess what he would do if I were to arrest him now?”
“Deny his identity, of course.”
“More than that. He has got another identity established. That name he is wearing is more than a mere name which he has assumed for his present purposes.”
“What do you mean by that statement?”
“I mean that somehow he has managed to establish a new identity. I don’t know how he has accomplished it, but if I read him correctly, he has practically made himself over into a new being, and established beyond a doubt—that is, a present doubt—that he is that person.”
“But how could he do that?”
“I don’t know—at the present time; but some day I shall make it my business to look into the matter; after we have got the present predicament off our hands.”
“You admit, then, that it is a predicament?”