“Have you been home?”
Jack nodded quickly.
“Is yore wife there?”
“No. That’s why I came——”
“Hartley said she was gone. Was there a dead man——?”
“On the sofa.” Jack came close to Sudden. “What do you know about it, Smithy?”
Sudden told him what Hashknife had said.
“Did he mean that some one had taken her away by force?” demanded Jack.
“I don’t know. Did she know any one by the name of Ed?”
Jack shook his head quickly.