“That what?”
“Well, that there’s been foul play, Max,” he said hoarsely. “You know what the people of those Balkan countries are—so many political conspirators in every walk of life. And the doctor was such a prominent politician in Servia.”
Was he telling an untruth? If so, he was a marvellous actor.
“Then you declare that you have received no word from either Maud or the Doctor.”
“I have heard nothing from them.”
“But, Charlie,” he said slowly, “has it not struck you that Marion knows something—that if she liked she could furnish us with a clue to the solution of the mysterious affair?”
“Yes,” he said, his face brightening at once. “How curious! That thought struck me also. She knows something, evidently, but refuses to say a word.”
“Because she is Maud’s most intimate friend.”
“Yet she ought, merely to set my mind at rest. She knows how fondly I love Maud.”
“What has she told you?”