He and Colonel Hughes stood facing each other across a table, and to me there was something in the manner of each that suggested eternal conflict.
"Well ?" sneered Bray.
"There is one possibility we have overlooked," Hughes answered.

He turned toward me and I was startled by the coldness in his eyes.

"Do you know, Inspector," he went on, "that this American came to London with a letter of introduction to the captain--a letter from the captain's cousin, one Archibald Enwright?
And do you know that Fraser-Freer had no cousin of that name ?" "No!" said Bray.
"It happens to be the truth," said Hughes.

"The American has confessed as much to me." "Then," said Bray to me, and his little blinking eyes were on me with a narrow calculating glance that sent the shivers up and down my spine, "you are under arrest.

I have exempted you so far because of your friend at the United States Consulate.