“Then I may as well go.”
“So you had, for you can’t work any game on me.”
“That’s all right. Before I go, just to show you that I am not playing on you, let me say that it is known about certain silver coming here. And, further, the man who brought it is tricking you.”
“What! De——How do you know that?”
Nick quietly smiled.
“De——” Gorse had begun to utter the name of Demas Lorton, but remembering himself, had cut it short.
Nick Carter had practically gained what he wished to know.
He was quick to think and plan, and in less than a minute after this admission he said:
“See here, Gorse!”
“What now?”