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There was, however, another matter that demanded his attention and he felt awkward when Kenwardine opened the door. "It's some time since you have been to see us," the latter remarked. "It is," said Jake. "Perhaps you can understand that I felt rather shy about coming after the way my partner arranged the matter of the check." "He arranged it to your advantage, and you ought to be satisfied. Mr.
Half an hour later he left the house, feeling that he had used commendable tact, but determined not to tell Brandon about the interview. Dick had a habit of exaggerating the importance of things, and since he already distrusted Kenwardine, Jake thought it better not to give him fresh ground for suspicion.
"I think not," said Kenwardine, who knew his visit would be attended by some risk. "For one thing, I'll be occupied all the time, and as I must get back as soon as possible, may have to travel by uncomfortable boats. You will be safe with Lucille." "Oh, yes," Clare agreed with languid resignation. "Still, I would have liked a change."
"No; I don't go so far. I think you should have stopped the game, but Fuller accuses a man called Black of playing the wrong card. In fact, I admit that you don't mean to harm him, by taking it for granted that you'll let me have the check, because if you kept it, you'd have some hold on him." "A firm hold," Kenwardine remarked. Dick had partly expected this, and had his answer ready.
Dick crossed the street with his hand clenched and his face hot, but felt that he had deserved his rebuff. He could not expect Miss Kenwardine to meet him as a friend. An hour or two later, Kenwardine returned to the house with Richter, the German, and said he found he must drive to a village some distance off to meet an official whom he had expected to see in the town.
It was a hot night and he found Kenwardine and three or four others in the patio. A small, shaded lamp stood upon the table they had gathered round, and the light sparkled on delicate green glasses and a carafe of wine. It touched the men's white clothes, and then, cut off by the shade, left their faces in shadow and fell upon the tiles.
"It would be much pleasanter to get it over and have done with it." "I think not," Don Sebastian answered quietly. "We do not know how Señor Kenwardine will meet the situation. He is a bold man, and it is possible that he will defy us." "How can he defy you when he knows you can hand him over to the British authorities?"
"He will come," Don Sebastian rejoined with quiet confidence. "Well, I guess he must know he's doing a dangerous thing." "Señor Kenwardine does know, but he plays for high stakes and takes the risks of the game. If it had not been necessary, he would not have ventured on British soil, but since he was forced to go, he thought the boldest plan the safest.
"In Santa Brigida, one hears everything that goes on. We have nothing much to do but talk about our neighbors' affairs." Dick wondered whether Kenwardine meant to hint that as his time was largely unoccupied he had only a small part in managing the coaling business, but he said: "We are hardly your neighbors at the camp." "I suppose that's true. We certainly don't see you often."
His friend, however, is the head of the coaling company." "Do you think Kenwardine was his partner? If so, it's hard to understand why he let you come to his house. He's not a fool." The Spaniard's dark eyes twinkled. "Señor Kenwardine is a clever man, and it is not always safer to keep your antagonist in the dark when you play an intricate game.
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