“Is there anything about it in the papers?” said Harker, taking up a Times.
“I’ve seen nothing.”
“You say it was a day or two ago. Have you got the Times for the last few days?”
“Yes; it’s there.”
Harker hastily turned over the file, and eagerly searched the police and country intelligence. In a minute or two he looked up and said,—
“Had Cruden senior changed his name?”
“How do I know?” said Booms, with a bewildered look.
“I mean, had he dropped his surname? Look here.”
And he showed Booms the paragraph which appeared in the London papers the morning after Reginald’s arrest.
“That looks very much as if it was meant for Cruden,” said Harker—“all except the name. If it is, that was Tuesday he was remanded, and to-day is the day he is to be brought up again. Oh, why didn’t we know this before?”