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'D n! he added; 'it is Gianesi! I thought we had the Irish minstrel. The figure only snarled, and swore in Italian. 'First thing, anyhow, to tie him up, said Logan, producing a serviceable cord. Both Logan and Merton were muscular men, and presently had the intruder tightly swathed in inextricable knots and gagged in a homely but sufficient fashion.
Gianesi agreed that Blake had spoken words of wisdom. Merton felt surprised at his practical common sense.
No more would Logan say, beyond asking questions, which Merton could not answer, about the transatlantic past of the vanished heiress. They loitered back towards the hotel and lunched. The room was almost empty, all the guests of the place were out fishing. Presently the motor returned from Lairg, bringing Mr. Gianesi and a large box of his electrical appliances.
In fact, he really had a singular genius for electric engineering; he had done very well at some German university. But he was a fellow of no principle! We are well quit of a rogue. I turned his unlucky victim, the false Gianesi, loose, with money enough for life to keep him honest if he chooses. His pension stops if ever a word of the method of rescue comes out. The same with my crew.
I enclose a banknote for 10l., which pray, if you would oblige me, distribute among the servants at the Castle. Please thank Mr. Macrae for all his hospitality. Among my books you may find something to interest you. You may keep my manuscript poems. Very faithfully yours, GERALD BLAKE. 'P. S. The genuine Gianesi will probably arrive at Lairg to-morrow.
Macrae read the message aloud; it ran thus: 'No good wiring to Gianesi and Giambresi at headquarters. You are hitched on to us, and to nobody else. Better climb down. What are your terms? 'This is infuriating, said Mr. Macrae. 'It must be a practical joke, but how to reach the operators?
The first message from the Gianesi invention was dated 'The Seven Hunters. Here was a clue. 'Are the islands inhabited? asked Merton. 'Just wi' wild goats, and, maybe, fishers drying their fish. And three men in a lighthouse on one of them, said the doctor. They now rushed up to the hotel and telegraph office of Inchnadampf.
'There's this, too, said Merton, 'the senders of the last message clearly think that Gianesi is against them. If Gianesi removes the machine, they say Merton did not finish his sentence, he rushed out of the room. Presently he hurried back. 'Mr. Macrae, he said, 'Blake's door is locked. I can't waken him, and, if he were in his room, the noise we have made must have wakened him already.
Merton was irresponsive, trying to think. What was this mystery? Why did the wireless machine bring no response from its headquarters; or how could practical jokers have intruded into the secret chambers of Messrs. Gianesi and Giambresi? These dreams or visions of his own on the night before Miss Macrae was taken were they wholly due to tobacco and the liver?
Mr. Macrae wished it had been Giambresi, whom he knew; Gianesi he had never met. Condolences, of course, poured in from all quarters, even the most exalted. The Emperor of Germany was most sympathetic. But there was no news of importance.
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