suspicions which had come to him before that day sweeping over him with full force.
Tolman Bike was thinking intently. Richard saw that his last bluff had gone home and he determined to follow it up with more of the same kind.
"Be as unconcerned as you please, Mr. Bike. To-morrow, when your marriage is postponed, and you are called on to answer to the serious charge I shall bring against you, you will be sorry that you didn't take the easier course, and give me the information I asked for." Dick said this as if his patience had run out.
"I have no information to give," Mr. Bike said, in a tone which showed he was beginning to weaken.
"Say, it's wasting time to pretend to me. Either you will, or you will not, do as I have asked you. If you don't, the consequences be on your own head."
