M'sieu Thayer he come in the minute.

He say he think he know heem." The eyes of Barry Houston suddenly lost their curiosity.

Thayer?
That could mean only one Thayer! Barry had taken particular pains to keep from him the information that he was anywhere except the East.

For it had been Fred Thayer who had caused Barry to travel across country in his yellow speedster, Thayer who had formed the reason for the displacement of that name plate at the beginning of Hazard Pass, Thayer who-- "Know him?
Is he a friend ?" "_Oui_.

So Thayer say.