“We’ll make it a point to learn.”
“I did not fancy the looks nor air of his chauffeur,” continued Nick. “He appeared to avoid my questions, and I now suspect that may have been done to give Badger time to get out of his rig as a highwayman and into the house suit and red flannel bandages in which he received me.”
“You think that whole business was designed only to blind you, in case you had any suspicions?”
“That certainly would have been the design, Chick, providing that we are justified in suspecting him at all.”
“There are too many of these significant little circumstances, Nick, for us to doubt that we are hitting somewhere near the mark,” Chick shrewdly reasoned.
“That’s the way I now regard them,” said Nick. “After my talk with Badger, in which I stated I should call upon Madame Victoria, he may have telephoned the fact to the fortune-teller. I noticed that he had a telephone in the hall.”
“That would explain her knowledge of you, Nick,” said Chick. “But bear in mind that you were in disguise when you first called upon her.”
“I remember that, Chick.”
“How can she have known you?”