When I meet the detectives in the course of another hour I shall probably gather something definite and reliable in the way of details." Forbes laid the pipe which he had filled but not lighted on the table.
He poured out a glass of port and drank it.
"Try that," he said, pushing the decanter toward Theydon.

"They cannot trouble you greatly.

You have so little to tell." "No, thanks.

Nothing more for me tonight until the Scotland Yard men have cleared out." Forbes rose as he spoke and strode the length of the room and back with the air of a man debating some weighty and difficult point.
"Mr.Theydon," he said, at last, halting in front of the younger man and gazing down at him with a direct intensity that was highly embarrassing to one who had good cause to connect him with the actual crime.

"I want you to do me a favor--a great favor.