Chapter IV.—In the Hours of the NightIt was a very puzzled and uneasy detective who was driven back to the Abbey that afternoon, for he was finding it impossible to determine the significance of what had just happened.
It seemed incredible, but he had to believe the evidence of his own ears. The old fisherman had called the airman a smuggler and had almost certainly, too, used the word “dope.”
But it was not that that was so particularly disturbing, although the incident there was extraordinary in itself. It was that the fisherman had chosen him, Larose, to whom to impart the information, and had added the word “watch!”
It was exactly as if the fisherman were aware who he, Larose, was and was warning him.
And yet he was quite certain he had never set eyes upon Henrik before, for when S
