We'll meet later." Hunterleys strolled back into the rooms.

He came almost at once face to face with Draconmeyer, whom he was passing with unseeing eyes.
Draconmeyer, however, detained him.
"I was looking for you, Sir Henry!" he exclaimed.

"Can you spare me one moment ?" They stood a little on one side, out of the way of the moving throng of people.

Draconmeyer was fingering nervously his tie of somewhat vivid purple.

His manner was important.
"Do you happen, Sir Henry," he asked, "to have had any word from the prison authorities to-day ?" Hunterleys nodded.
"I have just received a message," he replied.