He could tell
nothing about the lady.
This was unsatisfactory enough; but the man who had influenced her to
this step had been placed under surveillance. To-morrow they would
question him; the mystery was not without a promise of solution. So
Gerridge felt; but not Mr. Ransom; for at the end of the lines whose
purport he had just communicated to the detective were these few,
significant words:
"Make no move to find me. If you love me well enough to wait in silence
for developments, happiness may yet be ours."
CHAPTER IV
MR. RANSOM WAITS
Gerridge rose early, primed, as he said to himself, for business. But to
his great disappointment he found Mr. Ransom in a frame of mind which
precluded action. Indeed, that gentleman looked greatly changed. He not
only gave evidence of a sleepless night but showed none of the spirit of
the previous evening, and hesitated quite painfully when Gerridge asked
him if he did not intend to go ahead with the interview they had promised
themselves.
"That's as it may be," was the hesitating reply. "I hardly think that I
shall visit the man you mean this morning. He interests me and I hope
that none of his movements will escape you. But I'm not ready to talk to
him. I prefer to wait a little; to give my wife a chance. I should feel
better, and have less to forget.
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