More than one noticed them, but no one heard anything.

They talked very low but they meant business." "Where is this man now ?" "At the same place.

He has engaged a room there." "The man with the twisted jaw ?" "Yes." "Under what name ?" "Hugh Porter." "Ah, it was Hazen only five hours ago," muttered Ransom.

"Porter, did you say?
I'll have a talk with this Porter at once." "I think not to-night," put in the detective, with the mingled authority and deference natural to one of his kind.

"To-morrow, perhaps, but to-night it would only provoke scandal." This was certainly true, but Mr.Ransom was not an easy man to dominate.
"I must see him before I sleep," he insisted.