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"It will be of interest to you, however, to know that he called upon me here in this room, and occupied the chair you are now sitting in, three days ago." Kitwater clutched the arm of the chair in question and his face went as white as his beard. "In this room three days ago, and sitting in your presence," he cried. "Then you know where he is, and can take us to him?"
At last we became convinced that his story was genuine, and we rewarded the boy accordingly. After he had disappeared we informed Miss Kitwater of the discovery we had made. "You will follow them to Palermo?" "Assuredly, mademoiselle," Leglosse replied. "I have my duty to perform." "Then I must go with you," she answered.
You understand, of course, that I represent Messrs. Kitwater and Codd." "I am well aware of it," he replied, "and in common fairness to yourself, I can only say that I am sorry to hear it." "May I ask why you are sorry?" "Because you have the honour to represent the biggest pair of scoundrels unhung," he answered.
"Now," said Kitwater, as they stood together at the wharf with the pitiless English rain pouring down upon them, wetting them to the skin, "what we have to do is to find Gideon Hayle as soon as possible."
I cannot say which I disliked the more. Indeed, had it not been that I had promised Miss Kitwater to take up the case, and that I did not want to disappoint her, I believe I should have abandoned it there and then, out of sheer disgust. A little later our hostess proposed that we should adjourn to the house, as it was neatly lunch-time.
Even if he had, it struck me as being highly improbable that he would have been the possessor of such princely treasure, and even supposing that to be true, that he would, at his death, leave it to such a man as Kitwater. No, I fancied if we could only get at the truth of the story, we should find that it was a good deal more picturesque, not to use a harsher term, than we imagined.
I thereupon proceeded to give him a rough outline of Hayle's interview with myself, and his subsequent treatment of me. Both men listened with rapt attention. "That is Hayle all over," said Kitwater when I had finished. "It is not his fault that you are not a dead man now. He will evade us if he possibly can.
I believe she said "God be thanked" under her breath, but I am not quite certain upon that point. I did not tell her of the trick Hayle had so lately played upon myself. If the telling were necessary it would be able to come later on. "May I ask what brought you to Paris, Miss Kitwater?" I inquired, after a pause. "My great fear," she answered.
It could be done so easily, and no one would be any the wiser. I know two men now in Paris who would gladly run the risk for the sake of the ill-will they bear you. I must think it over." "Then think it over on the other side of that door," I said angrily. "Play the same traitorous trick on me as you did on Kitwater and Codd if you like, but you shall not stay in the same room with me now."
"That is very difficult to say," Kitwater replied, and then turned to his companion and held out his hand. The other took it and tapped upon the palm with the tips of his fingers in a sort of dot-and-telegraph fashion that I had never seen used before. "My friend says that there were ninety-three stones, all rubies and sapphires; they were of exquisite lustre and extraordinary size.
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