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"Now, my friends, listen to me," said Kitwater, as he spoke throwing down the tools he had been carrying, "what we have to do is to thoroughly sound the whole of this courtyard, inch by inch and stone by stone. We can't be wrong, for that this is the courtyard of the Three Elephants' Heads, there can be no doubt.
"It would be as well perhaps for you to furnish me with your address, in order that I may communicate with you, should it be necessary." "At present," said Kitwater, "we are staying with my niece at the village of Bishopstowe in Surrey. My late brother was vicar of the parish for many years, and he left his daughter a small property in the neighbourhood.
"Courage, courage, Miss Kitwater," I said, seeing that she was trembling. "Try not to be frightened. There is nothing to fear." Then turning to Leglosse, I added "Miss Kitwater has decided to accompany us to Naples. As a matter of fact my position in the case has undergone a change since I last saw you." He looked from one to the other of us as if in astonishment. "What do you mean?" he asked.
Who knows what might happen before we can come again?" "Nonsense," said Kitwater. "Who do you think is going to rob us of it? What's the use of worrying about it? In the morning we'll come back and fill up our bags, and then clear out of the place and trek for civilization as if the devil and all were after us. Just think, my lads, what there will be to divide."
"And if I'm not mistaken it will be a bad day for him when you do find him," put in Gregory, who had been an observant spectator of the scene. "Why should you hate him so?" "How do you know that we do hate him?" Kitwater asked, turning his sightless face in the direction whence the other's voice proceeded. "Hate him, why should we hate him? We have no grudge against him, Coddy, my boy, have we?"
My reference to Kitwater and Codd must have touched him on a raw spot, for he winced, and then tried to bluff it off. "I rather fancy Messrs. Kitwater and Codd will just have such kindly things to say concerning you in the future as they do about me now," he said, as he moved towards the door. "And now I will wish you good-bye.
"Pardon me," I said at last, "but there is one thing that must be taken into consideration. Some day, Miss Kitwater, you may marry, and in that case your husband might not care about the arrangement you have made. Such things have happened before now." She blushed a rosy red and hesitated before she replied. "I do not consider it very likely that I shall ever marry," she answered.
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.
You've got a use for sapphires, the like of which mortal man never set eyes on before." "That's certainly so," Hayle replied. "But what has this Sengkor-Wat to do with it?" "Everything in the world," Kitwater replied. "That's where those rubies are, and what's more, that's where we are going to find them." "Are you joking, or is this sober earnest?" He looked from Kitwater to Codd.
I had to remember how near I'd been to it myself." This speech sounded very pretty though somewhat illogical. "And pray how did you know that they had called in my assistance?" "Because I kept my eyes on them. I know Mr. Kitwater of old, you see. I watched them go into your office and come out from a shop on the other side of the street." The whole mystery was now explained.
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