"I don't like to tell you that. But I've seen your eyes before to-night."
"Where?"
"In Melbourne."
"In your house?"
"Yes—yes!"—eagerly.
"Why should I visit you?"
Old Danny looked away for a second, and then his eyes slowly came back to Old Broadbrim.
"You can't deceive me," he cried. "You are the government's spotter."
"How the government's spotter?"
"You are the man who followed Merle across the sea!"