“You’re wrong,” Bruce retorted without changing his position. “They can and they will. Don’t think Manderton is a fool, Robin. He means mischief ...”
Robin raised his eyebrows.
“Does he?” he said. “Now I wonder who told you that ...”
“Friends of yours at Harkings asked me to warn you ...” began Bruce awkwardly.
“My friends are scarcely in the majority there,” retorted Robin. “Whom do you mean exactly?”
But the boy ignored the question.
“Three men watching the house!” he exclaimed; “don’t you think that this looks as though Manderton meant business?”
He returned to his post of observation at the curtain.
Robin laughed cynically.
“Manderton doesn’t worry me any,” he said cheerfully. “The man’s the victim of an idée fixe. He believes Parrish killed himself just as firmly as he believes that I frightened or bullied Parrish into doing it ...”