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The three elderly gentlemen, seated in Mr. Halfpenny's private room, listened with intense, if silent, interest to Selwood's account of the interview with Barthorpe. It was a small bundle of news that he had brought back and two of his hearers showed by their faces that they attached little importance to it. But Professor Cox-Raythwaite caught eagerly at the mere scrap of suggestion.
"Tertius! -- Halfpenny! " he exclaimed. "That must be followed up -- we must follow it up at once. That bank-note may be a most valuable and effective clue."