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"I think I've put you wise, but I feel rather mean," he concluded. "What you feel is not important. But you really think he hasn't sent her Kenwardine's letter?" Jake made a sign of agreement and Ida resumed: "The other letter stating that his cousin stole the plans is equally valuable and his making no use of it is significant.
A number of rooms opened on to the passage, and Dick had an uncomfortable feeling that chance might bring him face to face with Kenwardine. Nobody met them, however, and they found the purser disengaged. "If you have a passenger list handy, you might let me see it," Dick said as he took the tickets. The purser gave him a list, and he noted Kenwardine's name near the bottom.
Dick admitted this frankly, but could not stay any longer in his house. He had, however, a better reason for going than his dislike to accepting Kenwardine's hospitality. Clare had robbed him and he must get away before he thought of her too much. It was an awkward situation and he feared he had not tact enough to deal with it.
Part of what he heard was new to him, but the Spaniard's statements could not be doubted, and he envied Kenwardine's nerve. The latter's face was, for the most part, inscrutable, but now and then he made a sign of languid agreement, as if to admit that his antagonist had scored a point.
The worst is that following the coast like this takes us off our course." Dick nodded. After making some calculations with Don Sebastian's help, he had found it would be possible to catch a small Danish steamer that would take them to a port at which Kenwardine's boat would arrive shortly afterwards.
He found no satisfaction in that sort of thing, and he now felt that some of Kenwardine's friends would do better to join the new armies than to waste their time as they were doing. At last Kenwardine threw down the cards. "I think we have had enough for a time," he said. "Shall we go into the music-room, for a change?" Dick followed the others, and looked up with surprise when Clare came in.
He brought me to-night, but I felt that it was, perhaps, something of an intrusion when you came in." "You didn't feel that before?" Dick knew that he was on dangerous ground. He must not admit that he suspected Kenwardine's motive for receiving promiscuous guests. "Well, not to the same extent. You see, Lance knows everybody and everybody likes him. I thought I might be welcome for his sake."
I expect you heard about the collier tramp that was consigned to the French company at Arucas? Owing to some dispute, they wouldn't take the cargo and the shippers put it on the market. Fuller tried to buy some, but found that another party had got the lot. Well, Stuyvesant believes it was the German, Richter, who bought it up." "Jake tells me that Richter's a friend of Kenwardine's."
Then he could not expose Kenwardine without involving Clare, and saw no means of separating them. Besides, Kenwardine's position was strong. The officials were given to graft, and he had, no doubt, made a skilful use of bribes.
She had no women friends except the wives of one or two Spanish officials whose reputation for honesty was not of the best; the English and American women left her alone. Most of the men she met she frankly disliked, and imagined that the formal respect they showed her was due to her father's hints. Kenwardine's moral code was not severe, but he saw that his guests preserved their manners.
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