He passed it back, however, without immediate comment.
"You see, they have been cleverer over there than we were," Quest remarked.
"Perhaps," the Professor assented.

"They seem, at least, to have arrested the man.

Even now I can scarcely believe that it is Craig--my servant Craig--who is lying in an English prison.

Do you know that his people have been servants in the Ashleigh family for some hundreds of years ?" Quest was clearly interested.

"Say, I'd like to hear about that!" he exclaimed.