"Was it Nick Carter advised you to make this decision?"
"No, sir. Mr. Carter does not know anything about this affair."
"Why did you engage him?"
"Anita told me to engage a detective."
"She told you to engage a private detective in Boston, to whom you were to point out the top of the hypodermic syringe, and suggest to him that it might belong to Dr. Lord. If you did that, Lord would have been at once arrested on suspicion. But you knew that Nick Carter would never make the arrest until he had[Pg 49] fully and perfectly investigated the case, and was absolutely certain of his man."
"I know that now. I did not know it when I engaged him."
"If you engaged him with the intention of directing his suspicion to Dr. Lord, why do you now refuse to make an information yourself?"
"Because I know Dr. Lord did not murder my father."
"What would you do if Anita made such a statement to the police?" said the Cuban.
The young man started at this cold-blooded suggestion.