“But Jeff and I have caught the man who was with the one claiming to be Mr. Everdail——”
“Claiming to be,” Sandy said disgustedly. “I was wrong. He is Mr. Everdail.”
“How did you find out?”
“He came back, Larry.” Dick chuckled.
“Came back? I thought——”
“He wrote the note for Jeff, and then called up the hospital where the pilot was taken,” Dick stated. “They said the man seemed to be coming out of his sleep and Mr. Everdail went out to the road while we weren’t especially watchful, and got a passing car to take him to the next village. Then he took a taxi to the hospital.”
“And what he heard there made him come home,” Sandy added.
“What did the pilot say?”
“You recall what you thought was part of a word?”
“Yes, Dick—the beginning of ‘Gaston,’ we thought.”