"Shouldn't mind taking a rest in it myself." We found Radnor pacing up and down the small room in which he was confined, like a caged animal; the anxiety and seclusion were beginning to tell on his nerves.

He faced about quickly as the door opened and at sight of me his face lightened.

He was growing pathetically pleased at having anyone with whom he could talk.
"Rad," I said with an air of cheerfulness which was not entirely assumed, "I hope we're nearing the end of our trouble at last.

This is Mr.Patten--Terry Patten of New York, who has come to help me unravel the mystery." It was an unfortunate beginning; I had told him before of Terry's connection with the Patterson-Pratt affair.

He had half held out his hand as I commenced to speak, but he dropped it now with a slight frown.
"I don't think I care to be interviewed," he remarked curtly.