"No."
"It would have been natural to do so, wouldn't it?"
"Perhaps; but we were busy at the time, and——"
"And it didn't occur to you," said Quarles. "Now I suggest that when you picked out Hall you were really identifying the man you knew as George Cross, and that the man who pawned the salver and gave the name Hall was a different person altogether."
"No."
"Are you sure the salver was not pawned by a woman?"
"Certain."
"But you might reconsider your original statement if I produced another man?"
"If such a person exists, why has it not been suggested to me, say, by a photograph?"
The professor nodded and smiled, but I could get nothing out of him that evening, not even whether he was hopeful or not.