He is on the wrong track, but, nevertheless, all the influence we can use on him in his present frame of mind will merely do what it did before--it will muddle the man up.

Now, I propose that we leave him severely alone.

Let him find out his mistake.

He will find it out in some way or other, and then he will be in a condition of mind to turn to the case of Jane Morton." "But don't you see," argued Brenton, "that all the time spent on his present investigation is so much time lost?
I will agree to leave him alone, as you say, but let us get somebody else on the Morton case." "I don't want to do that," said Speed; "because George Stratton has taken a great deal of interest in this search.

He has done a great deal now, and I think we should he grateful to him for it." "Grateful!" growled Brenton; "he has done it from the most purely selfish motives that a man can act upon.