He followed Anderson with a nervous stride.

Both men entered the little office, but the boy was gone.

Both stood gazing about the little space.

It was absolutely impossible for anybody to be concealed there.

There was no available hiding-place except under the table, and the cat occupied that, and his eyes shone out of the gloom like green jewels.
"I don't see him," said Carroll.
Then Anderson turned upon him.
"Sir," he said, with a kind of slow heat, "I am at a loss as to what to attribute your tone and manner.