“One question: suppose detectives should come out here?”
“Let ’em come.”
“Are you certain they cannot pipe your prison?”
“I am dead certain. They could more easily find his body were he in a secret grave.”
“Herman, I have reason to believe that I am suspected.”
“I thought when I saw you last that you said it was impossible for you to be suspected, and that if I kept my prisoner close it was not possible that you ever could be suspected.”
“Well, that is what I thought, but since something strange has occurred.”
“What?”
Fellman told Herman what had occurred, and the latter laughed and said:
“Is that all?”