"But you'll find him cool and desperate."
"I know that."
"If he turns on you your life won't be worth the flare of a candle."
"I've counted every cost, as I always do, Tom," was the answer. "I know the trail and the quarry. I am ready for the game."
By this time the landlady appeared at the door of the room and the two men turned to interview her.
She did not know much about her late roomer.
All she did know was in his favor, for he paid promptly and ahead for a week.
He was "a nice gentleman," and the detectives did not tell her that he was a suspected murderer.
Once more on the street below the Scotland Yarder proposed to escort Old Broadbrim to a lounging place for the English detectives when not officially engaged, but the Quaker did not want his presence known in London and declined.
By this time the shades of twilight had deepened over the city.