PARENTAL ANXIETY For a moment Brereton and the superintendent looked at each other in silence.

Then Bent got up from his desk at the other side of the room, and he and the little solicitor came towards them.
"Keep that to yourself, then," muttered Brereton.

"We'll talk of it later.

It may be of importance." "Well, there's this much to bear in mind," whispered the superintendent, drawing back a little with an eye on the others.

"Nothing of that sort was found on your client! And he'd been out all night.