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Suddenly Hayle, who was looking down a side street, uttered an exclamation of surprise. "Did you see that?" he inquired of Kitwater. Then, without waiting for a reply, he dived into the nearest ruin and disappeared from view. "What on earth is the matter with him?" inquired Kitwater of Codd. "Has he gone mad?" Codd only shook his head. Hayle's doings were more often than not an enigma to him.
"But it is quite evident to me that you know more of Hayle's past life than I do!" "I should think I did," I replied. "By Jove, what a blackguard the man must be!
He leant over Hayle's shoulder and pointed to a certain portion of the sketch. "That's the great temple," he said; "and what the red dot means we are going to find out." "Well, suppose it is, what makes you send for me?" Hayle inquired suspiciously. "Because we must have another good man with us," Kitwater replied. "I'm very well, but you're better.
There was the fact that they had certainly been mutilated as they described, and also their hatred of Hayle to be weighed in one balance, while Hayle's manifest fear of them could be set in the other. "If I am not mistaken that is your step, Mr. Fairfax," said the blind man, stopping suddenly in his walk, and turning his sightless face in my direction.
Kitwater and Codd had arrived in Paris that morning, and had visited Hayle's lodgings only to find him gone. "What is more important still," he continued, "they have managed to learn that Hayle had gone to Naples, and they will probably leave by the 2.50 train to-morrow morning for that city: It is as well, perhaps, that we arranged to travel by the next."
That afternoon he went out once more, this time to interview the police authorities. At five o'clock he returned in a state of great excitement. "The other two have discovered Hayle's whereabouts," he said, when we were alone together. "And they have set off in pursuit.
Hayle's remains were never found. Whether he fell into the deep water and was washed out to sea, or whether his body was jammed between the rocks under the water, no one would ever be able to say. It was gone, and with it all that were left of the stones that had occasioned their misery. Codd did not accompany us in the search, and when we returned to the villa above he was not to be found.
For a moment I had almost been tempted to believe that the stones were Hayle's property, and that these two men were conducting their crusade with the intention of robbing him of them. Yet, on maturer reflection, this did not fit in.
But if you will give us your assistance, sir, we will make him aware of our presence before very long." Though he tried to speak unconcernedly, there was an expression upon the man's face that startled me. I felt that, blind though he was, I should not care to be in Mr. Hayle's place when they should meet. After they had left me I lit a cigar and began to think the matter over.
Some day I may be able to repay it." Within half-an-hour the estimable Lepallard had been made acquainted with his duties, and within an hour a ragged tatterdemalion of a man was selling matches on the opposite side of the road to that on which Hayle's apartments were situated.
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