"Craig is a man of highly nervous susceptibilities.

The very idea of being suspected of anything so terrible would be enough to drive him almost out of his mind.

I am convinced that we shall find him at home presently, with some reasonable explanation of his absence." Quest paced the room for a few moments, moodily.
There was a certain amount of reason in the Professor's point of view.
"Anyway, I cannot stay here much longer, unless I mean to go back to the Tombs," he declared.
"Surely," the Professor suggested, "your innocence will very soon be established ?" "There is one thing which will happen, without a doubt," Quest replied.
"My auto and the chauffeur will be discovered.

I have insisted upon enquiries being sent out throughout the State of Connecticut.

They tell me, too, that the police are hard on the scent of Red Gallagher and the other man.