lurking

“You are quite sure that not a lurking doubt or suspicion lingers in your mind?”

But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbade the disclosure.

Well, now, let us see where this rat has been lurking.”

Of course I have other reasons for thinking so—dozens of exiguous threads which lead vaguely up towards the centre of the web where the poisonous, motionless creature is lurking.