“Granted. What more?”
“Well, there isn’t any more—at least, there isn’t much more. But suppose all that, now, where would you look for him, in such a case?”
“That is quite a different question, Max.”
“I know it is; but we have got to answer it. You see, Nick, it goes without saying that we start for Anjou at once. If he is going there with her, he will arrive there before we could possibly do so ourselves, for the Shadow is one of the swiftest things I ever saw in the water.”
“She is that.”
“Well, if he is going there, he will be there already when we arrive. If he is not going there, where will he be?”
“Somewhere at the opposite side of the world, most likely.”
“But where?”
“My dear fellow, I cannot answer that any more than you can.”