Arthur soon after joined him, while Aunt Jane took her bevy of girls to another part of the loge.
"Le Drieux will be here presently," said Uncle John to young Weldon.
"Oh, the fellow with the book.

Why, sir ?" "He's a detective, I think.

Anyhow, he is shadowing Jones, whom he suspects is a thief." He then told Arthur frankly of his former conversation with Le Drieux, and of the puzzling photograph.
"It really resembles the boy," he admitted, with a frown of perplexity, "yet at the same time I realized the whole thing was absurd.

Neither Patsy nor I can believe that Jones is the man who robbed an Austrian countess.

It's preposterous! And let me say right now, Arthur, that I'm going to stand by this young fellow, with all my influence, in case those hounds try to make him trouble." Arthur did not reply at once.