That the journalist had found means of doing him this service was very likely indeed.

He remembered with satisfaction that no hint of such a thing had escaped his own lips.

Still, he was uneasy.

Keene might have fallen short of prudence, with the result that Daniel Dabbs might be in a position to trace this calumny to him, Mutimer.

It would not be pleasant if the affair, thus represented, came to the ears of his friends, particularly of Mr.Westlake.
He had just finished his breakfast, and was glancing over the newspaper in a dull and irritable mood, when Keene himself arrived.