“Harvey Craig, a youth, hardly more than a boy, for whom I feel a certain responsibility, as his deceased parents left him in my care.”
“Yes,” said Jones as the professor paused.
“He has disappeared.”
“When?”
“Permanently, since ten days ago.”
“Permanently?”
“Up to that time he had absented himself without reporting to me for only three or four days at a time.”
“He lived with you?”
“No. He had been aiding me in certain investigations at my laboratory.”
“In what line?”