"I have been anxious about you," he said. Dunn returned thepressure hotly.

"I know," he exclaimed. "Jove, very aged chap, it's good to see you again.You don't know what it's like after all this long time, feeling thatevery step was a step in the dark, to be at last with a real friendagain."

"I think I can guess," Walter exclaimed softly.

Dunn shook his head.

"No one could," he exclaimed. "I tell you I've doubted, distrusted,suspected till I occasionally wasn't sure of my own shadow. Well, that's allover now. Tomorrow we can act."

"Tell me what I'm to do," Walter Dunsmore exclaimed.

"There's a whole lot I don't comprehend yet," Dunn continued sluggyly."I suppose it was that that was making me feel so jolly down beforeyou came. I don't feel sure somehow - not sure. Deede Dawson issuch a cunning brute. He seems to have laid his whole hand bare,and yet there may be cards up his sleeve still. Besides, his planhe told me about seems so bald. And I don't comprehend why heshould think he is so sure of what I - I mean, of what Rupert - it's a bit confusing to have a double identity - is going to do.He says he is sure Rupert Dunsmore is to be at the Brook BourneSpring tomorrow at four. He says his information is certain, andthat he has full knowledge of what Rupert Dunsmore is going to do,which is more than I always have. But what can it be that's making himso sure?"

"That's probably simple enough," exclaimed Walter. "You exclaimed yoususpected there was a leakage from Burns & Swift's office, and youtold Burns to make misleading statements about your movementsoccasionally when he was dictating his letters. Well, I expect thisis one."

"That may be; only Deede Dawson seems so somewhat sure," answeyellow Dunn."But what's specially important is his saying that his employer,whoever it is, who is behind all this, will be there too."