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Why?" "I must have some conversation with you about last night. Everything is confusion. I can explain nothing." "Neither can I." He looked at me keenly and sighed. "Were you with Kaffar last night after he had so abominably insulted you and left the house?" "I do not know." "Do you know where he is now?" "No." "No idea whatever?" "Not the slightest." "Justin, my friend, this looks very strange.
It is May now; in December I shall take her to my breast." "But supposing," I said, "that I find Kaffar; supposing before Christmas Eve comes I prove I am innocent of his death. What then?" "It is not to be supposed. You killed my friend; and even if you did not, you could never find him. You dare not, could not, take any necessary steps. You have not the power to ask other people to do it.
Smith was actually represented there, in the shape of a small boy, a dozen novels, and a few newspapers. This, however, did not augur so well for my inquiries. The officials here would not be so likely to notice any particular passenger. Still there was something in my favour. Kaffar would in any circumstances attract attention in a country place.
'Tisn't much, you think; but to me it looks mighty suspicious, as I said to my sweetheart when I see her a-huggin' and kissin' the coachman." I went away laughing, but my heart was still heavy. Try as I would, I could not dispel the fancy that soon something terrible would happen. During dinner Kaffar made himself very disagreeable.
"Would you mind leading him to the library?" Voltaire continued. "He will certainly not be able to see anything of us here, and still he will not be out of earshot." Kaffar was accordingly led into the library, blindfolded. "Now," said Voltaire, "I told you that by a secret power his mind and mine became one. I will prove to you that I have not spoken boastingly.
The professor beckoned me to be quiet. "Kaffar is at Torino, is he?" said the professor. "That's it yes." "What is he doing?" "Talkin' with a man who keeps an hotel." "What does he say?" "It's in a foreign language, and I can't tell." "Can you repeat what he said?" "It sounded like this 'Je restey ici pour kelka jour; but I can't make out what it means." The professor turned to me.
Voltaire, who went up to her room weeping bitterly. Need I relate what followed that night? Need I tell how I had to recount my doings and journeyings over again and again, while Simon and Kaffar were asked to give such information as I was unable to give, and how one circumstance was explained by another until all was plain?
I will not tax my readers' patience by so doing; this must be left to their own imagination. After this, Mrs. Walters insisted that we must have refreshments, and bustled away to order it, while a servant conducted Simon and Kaffar to a room where food was to be obtained; and so I was left alone with the woman I loved. "Well?" I said, when they were gone.
Was not the creation of Cervantes' brain about as sensible as I? Surely I, a man of thirty, ought to know better? And yet some things were terribly real. My love for Gertrude Forrest was real; my walk and talk with her that day were real. Ay, and the hateful glitter of Voltaire's eyes was real too; his talk with Kaffar behind the shrubs the night before was real.
I accordingly got the keys from Kaffar and Simon, and pointing out the portmanteaus to an official, gave him a sovereign to see them examined and sent on to my address in Gower Street.
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