He had gone to London when he disappeared--he admitted that.

What had brought him back?
To see Thalassa, as he said, in order to try and get at the truth?
Nonsense! He--Barrant--was not simple enough to believe that.

What then?
Barrant was not prepared to supply a ready answer to that question.

But his trained ear had detected many gaps in the young man's own narrative which, filled in, might give it.

Turold knew more than he had said--he was keeping things back.