"I am looking at him now."

"Very likely. He's deep in this affair. Just an everyday detective,
but ambitious, I suppose, and quite alive to the importance of being
thorough."

"He is watching those people. No, he isn't. How quickly he
disappeared!"

"Yes, he's mercurial in all his movements. Laura, we must get out
of this. There happens to be something else in the world for me to
do than to sit around and follow up murder clews."

But we began to doubt if others agreed with him, when on passing
out we were stopped in the lobby by this same detective, who had
something to say to George, and drew him quickly aside.

"What does he want?" I asked, as soon as George had returned to
my side.

"He wants me to stand ready to obey any summons the police may
send me."

"Then they still suspect Brotherson?"

"They must."

My head rose a trifle as I glanced up at George.

"Then we are not altogether out of it?" I emphasised, complacently.