The Man Called Gilray by Fred M. White

Temple watched the girl for a moment or two in silence. The matter was certainly in his own hands now, and was only a question of patience.

That the girl had a story to tell he felt certain. She had managed to conceal something from the sharp eye of Sparrow, or perhaps this evidence of guilt was the outcome of a guilty conscience suddenly overwrought. Anyway, Phil was determined to get to the bottom of it.