Even now I find it a little difficult to follow the workings of our friend French's mind.

It seems hard to believe that he could really have imagined you guilty." "French is all right," Quest declared.

"He fell into the common error of the detective without imagination." "What about that unhappy man Craig ?" the Professor asked gloomily.

"Isn't the _Durham_ almost due now ?" Quest took out the cablegram from his pocket and passed it over.

The Professor's fingers trembled a little as he read it.