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Indeed, his mind was not at all occupied just then with von Kerber's scheming. "So I imagined. And that is why I stole out of my tent and waited here. I was sure you would agree with me that the really important thing is our speedy return to the yacht. It is the only possible course.
This stiff-necked answer showed clearly that the writer was still on von Kerber's side, no matter what revelations were contained in the letter from London which Royson knew of. Irene copied the note for her grandfather. She made no comment. Perhaps her own island blood was a- boil at the cavalier tone of the Governor's threat. Stump's letter was characteristic. It ran: S. Y. Aphrodite,
Haxton who answered, and her composure was oddly at variance with von Kerber's distress. "Alfieri was assistant curator of a museum at Naples when the Italian occupation of Erythrea led to his appointment as government archeologist in this territory," she said. "My husband was in charge of the Red Sea cable at that time, and Signor Giuseppe Alfieri was a friend of ours.
By all means secure for us any possible information that can be obtained through the Arabs, but I came here because because I shall feel happier if you promise me that you will avoid this man, Alfieri, and his friends. Did you see the look on Baron von Kerber's face to-day? I never before realized what the hunger for gold meant. He would kill any one who barred his path.
If he told her of the theft of the papyrus, and explained the few details he possessed with regard to von Kerber's declared enemy, he would only add fuel to the distrust already planted in her heart. That would achieve no tangible good, while no casuistry would wipe away the stain on his own honor.
He caught the drift of von Kerber's comment, and it did not help to further the scheme which the latter had in mind. "Mr. Royson?" came the quick growl. "What of him? Next to Tagg, he's the best man in the crowd." "Possibly, but I have reason to believe that he wishes to return to England." "He hasn't said so."
"Wot?" said Stump, moving restlessly under von Kerber's fixed gaze. "D'ye mean it, mister?" "I do, most certainly." "Then you'd better fix the business yourself. You engaged him, like the rest of us. I like the lad, and I'd take it ill to be axed to fire him. No, sir. That ain't in my department this trip. It'd be a bird of another color if he was no good.
I have met exceptions." "Oh, as for that, every man has his price. That is why I pay well. Now, I am going out to dine. The Aphrodite sails this week. You. will sign an agreement, yes?" "Delighted," said Dick, though bitter experience had taught him that von Kerber's last question might reveal some disagreeable feature hitherto unseen, just as the sting of the scorpion lies in its tail.
Fenshawe, whose arrest was due to his persistent defense of Baron Franz von Kerber's undertaking.
Even Irene and Dick, less wrapped up in the dream of finding the Sabaean hoard, awaited von Kerber's next utterance with bated breath. The man was too unnerved to feel any triumph at the sensation he had created. "Yes," he said, sinking wearily into a chair, though his voice almost cracked with excitement. "I changed the distances in every instance permitted by the text.
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