'I'm sick and tired of this,' he said. 'Sick and tired of it. Your brother--if he was your brother--came here and was here for an hour or more. What we talked about is not your business. I doubt very seriously whether what you've told me was the truth, and what I've told you until now was not the truth either. But now you know. Your brother was here and went. I suggest that you go after him.'
Osmund was violent. His voice shook with suppressed rage. But the little man answered him with exceeding mildness.
'I'm Pengelly's brother all right, Mr. Osmund. You have every right to be annoyed with me. Only you might have told me the truth in the first place. Many people would think that you had something to conceal. Why shouldn't you acknowledge to me that he had been here? There was no harm in
