“I thought that I recognized you,” said the young man.
“Are you the one——”
But he was interrupted.
“How is the market to-day, Mr. Cary?” asked the young man. “My eye has been off the tape to-day, and I am carrying a lot of U. P.”
Could any one have been close enough, they would have seen that while the young man was asking this question, and others, and receiving nervous and embarrassed answers to them, he was closely watching the elderly man.
If Mr. Cary had been a sharp detective, he would have thought that these sharp looks meant something, but as he was not, of course, he apparently did not observe them.
Finally the young man said:
“Are you prepared to follow me?”
“Why, yes; that is why I am here, I suppose. Are you the one who was to meet me here?”
“Mr. Cary, are you acting in good faith?”