"I see. He merely suspects him of that. What self-restraint he shows! And is that John Ireland on the doorstep?"
"That is a man named Hollier, whom John Ireland was good enough to commission to keep an eye on me."
"Why on you? Does he suspect you also?"
Mr. Franklyn shrugged his shoulders.
"He knows that I am Cyril's friend."
"And all Cyril's friends are to be watched and spied upon? I see. And is Cyril arrested? Is he in prison? Is that the meaning of his absence?"
"Not a bit of it. He seems, temporarily, to have disappeared."
"And when he reappears I suppose John Ireland will arrest him?"
"Candidly, Miss Strong, I fear he will."
"There is something else you fear. And which you fear too!"