CHAPTER III

Collison went away from that interview feeling that Mr. Simpson Jones had more in him than appeared likely. He was evidently not to be drawn, cajoled, or forced. Whether it was really because Miss Cynthia Vandelys desired secrecy and privacy, however, Collison felt uncertain; there was something about Jones that made him doubtful and suspicious. He began to wonder about Jones’s business relations with the young lady whom Jones had grandiloquently styled a genius. Jones was acting as her sole agent; was Jones chargi…