For a long time the two men sat together, but though the Doctor was eager to learn how Aggie’s father had obtained his knowledge, the latter was equally determined to tell him nothing.
“If you carry on this inquiry, Doctor,” he said, “it will be a very risky proceeding—I can tell you that much.”
“What! Your object then is to frighten me into inactivity, Mr Mullet—eh?” asked the little man, jumping up.
“Not at all—not at all, my dear fellow. You don’t understand. You and I are friends, and—well, we’ll continue to be, if you will allow me.”
Raymond Diamond confessed that he did not understand the object of his visitor’s presence there.
But “Red Mullet” only laughed, and taking another cigar from his case, said drily:
“Then let us drop the subject, Doctor, and talk of something else.”