And meanwhile he would inveigle Sackville Bonham into conversation.

Sackville fell readily into Bryce's trap.

He was the sort of youth who loves to talk, especially in a hinting and mysterious fashion.

And when Bryce, after treating him to an appetizer in the bar of the club-house, had suggested that they should lunch together and got him into a quiet corner of the dining-room, he launched forth at once on the pertinent matter of the day.
"Heard all about this discovery of those missing Saxonsteade diamonds ?" he asked as he and Bryce picked up their knives and forks.

"Queer business that, isn't it?
Of course, it's got to do with those murders!" "Think so ?" asked Bryce.
"Can anybody think anything else ?" said Sackville in his best dogmatic manner.