“By finding them in my possession? Do you mean that?”
“Yes.”
“That is why you would like to search my rooms?”
“Yes.”
“Do you really think that he would have taken the risk of hiding them in my rooms?”
“Nan, Jimmy Duryea will stop at nothing to carry his point. He has come here, resolved to marry Theodore Remsen’s daughter. He has made that daughter fall in love with him, and he can render himself a most lovable chap, if he has the mind to do so.”
“That is only too true, Mr. Carter. Even now I find myself trying to make excuses for him. In the old days, when he made me assist him in his burglaries, and finally when I actually stole things under his direction, there was no resisting him.”
“I know.”
“But what——”