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As it is, he has a thousand different ways of escape, and unless luck favours me, I shall be unable to prevent him from taking his departure." At that moment there was a tap at the door and my clerk entered the room. "Mr. Kitwater and Mr. Codd to see you, sir." "Show them in," I said, and a moment later the blind man and his companion were ushered into my presence.
"An exceedingly fair one," Kitwater replied, while little Codd nodded his head energetically to show that he appreciated it. "We had expected that you would charge more. Of course you understand that it may involve a chase round half the world before you can find him? He's as slippery as an eel, and, if he once gets to know that we are after him, he'll double and twist like a hare."
But still Hayle seemed incredulous. "And are you going to search all that area? It strikes me that you will be an old man by the time you find the treasure, Kitwater." "Don't you believe it. We've got something better to go upon than that. There was an old Chinese traveller who visited this place in the year ... what was the year, Coddy?"
All three were good judges of stones, and a very brief examination was sufficient, even in the feeble evening light, to enable them to see that they were not only gems of the first water, but also stones of such a size as is seldom seen in these unregenerate days. "It's the biggest scoop on earth," said Hayle, unconsciously echoing the expression Kitwater had used to him in Singapore.
You do not still believe that I am acting in collusion with him?" "I do not," Kitwater answered vehemently. "And I most humbly apologize for having said what I did. It would have served me right if you had thrown the case up there and then, and I regard it as a proof of your good feeling towards us that you consent to continue your work upon it. To-day is Friday, is it not?
She accordingly left us and went into the house to make her toilet. As soon as she had gone Kitwater fumbled his way across to where I was sitting, and having discovered a chair beside me, seated himself in it. "Mr. Fairfax," said he, "I labour under the fear that you cannot understand my position.
You can also see for yourself how this man has behaved towards us. He has robbed us of all we hold valuable, and to his act of treachery we owe the mutilations we have suffered. Can you wonder that we are anxious to find him?" "I do not wonder at that at all," I said. "My only feeling is that I must regard it as an entirely business matter." "We cannot blame you," Kitwater replied.
"We do not know, or we should scarcely have asked your assistance," Kitwater replied with some show of reason. "It is because we have heard of your wonderful powers in tracing people that we have come to you. Our only cause for attending the trial at which you saw us was to hear the evidence you gave and to draw our own conclusions from it.
The same intense silence, however, hung over everything. In the narrower streets creepers trailed from side to side, almost shutting out the light, and adding a twilight effect to the already sufficiently mysterious rooms and courtyards to be seen within. "This is by no means the most cheerful sort of place," said Hayle to Kitwater, as they passed down a paved street side by side.
"It's just possible they may have done so, of course," said Kitwater, "but how are we to know? We couldn't prevent them, for we don't know how many of them there may be. That fellow you saw this evening may only have been placed there to spy upon our movements. Confound it all, I wish we were a bigger party."
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