"What did he say?"
"Really, Nash, I don't know that I have any right to repeat what he told me."
"Did he ask you not to?"
"No; but perhaps he intended to do so and forgot."
Nash laughed uproariously. "You are the limit!" he exclaimed. "You beat the band! Why should he tell you a thing that he would not want me to know?"
Rayton suspected several reasons; but he did not want to offend his guest by advancing them.
"Have you seen Jim since that night?" he asked.
"No."
"But saw his sister?"
"Yes. Jim wasn't at home."