When he reached the camp he deliberately withheld from Durnovo the news that the Msala household had left the river station.

Moreover, he allowed Victor Durnovo to further inculpate himself.

He led him on to discuss the position of affairs, and the half-breed displayed an intimate knowledge of the enemy's doings.
There was only one inference to be drawn, namely, that Victor Durnovo had abandoned his people at Msala with the same deliberation which had characterised his cowardly faithlessness to Jack Meredith.
Guy Oscard was a slow thinking man, although quick in action.

He pieced all these things together.

The pieces did not seem to fit just then--the construction was decidedly chaotic in its architecture.