CHAPTER VIII.--A MASTER--TOO.
It was always an obsession with Larose that a person hugging to some guilty knowledge had never quite the equanimity of a perfectly well-balanced mind, for his thoughts, the detective averred, would be continually harking back to the secret he possessed. He would have an atmosphere about him, too, different from that of normal people, and, in proportion to the magnitude of the wrong-doing in which he was involved, he would exhibit signs and symptoms which to a mind trained to watch for and note such things would soon become apparent.
So Larose was sure that once he got in touch with Dr. Van Steyne, once he got in a close and intimate relationship with him, he would find out something that would give him inspiration to determine in what particular direction o
