“Yes.”
“Very well, I will so report to the person who sent me.”
“Who was that?”
“He said you would know that!”
“I don’t, though.”
“But you will before long, even though I do not tell you, as I shall not.”
“How, then, will I know?”
“He said that he would arrange to see you some time after ten to-night.”
The detective took his leave at this juncture. Gorse did not now in any way doubt the man, although he could not understand the necessity for all this mystery. If a certain person connected with the police department, who had before now given him warning of approaching danger, wished to warn him again, why could he not have done it in a way as openly as before?
Nick Carter had played a shrewd game, based on a supposition that Gorse had a friend in the department, which he had thought to be the case since it had never been possible to secure evidence that had been positively known to have been in his possession.