“A very rascally game you played to accomplish it!”
“When you go hunting rascals, Carter, you must expect to be turned down by their own methods, if at all.”
“That’s right, too, and I was imprudent in not being ready for you.”
“You were up against more craft and cunning than you bargained for.”
“I don’t need to be informed of it,” retorted Nick, now wondering when, how, and for what reason they had planned the trick.
For he knew the assault must have been planned previous to his talk with Vic Clayton that afternoon, or it could not have been so quickly executed, nor the trap itself so definitely arranged.
“One fact is now very obvious, however,” he presently added, hoping to lead Badger into some inadvertent disclosure.
“What fact?” growled Badger, frowning at him.
“Some person informed you of the request I designed to make the Clayton woman.”
“Think so?”