I've been keeping an eye on you for the last thirty minutes." The attorney colored, and hastily reverted to the original topic of conversation.

"Have you seen anything of him since he left us ?" "Since his resignation of the salary as well as the position of private 'secretary ?" queried the detective, half to himself, with a tone of amusement, which Mr.Whitney failed to comprehend.

"Yes; I met him to-day at the Murray Hill." "At the Murray Hill! Is he stopping there ?" "He evidently was this morning.

So was I.

Possibly we were both 'stopping' on the same business; I cannot say." The detective's face was a study, as was also the attorney's.
"I supposed," said the latter, after a short pause, "from the tenor of his note, that he intended to leave the city at once." "Possibly he does," replied the other, enigmatically, and, having consulted his watch, turned abruptly in another direction.
"Say, what will you do about him?
Shall you watch him ?" Mr.
Whitney called after the vanishing figure.
Merrick looked back over his shoulder with a peculiar smile.