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I accordingly entered the room where the lady was awaiting me. The light was not very good, but it was sufficient for me to see two figures standing by the window. "To what am I indebted for the honour of this visit, mademoiselles?" I began. "Don't you know me, Mr. Fairfax?" the taller of them answered. "You forget your friends very quickly." "Miss Kitwater?" I cried, "what does this mean?"
That they had not booked passages in the same boat in which Hayle had sailed, we soon settled to our satisfaction. In that case we knew that they must be domiciled in Naples somewhere. In the intervals between our search Leglosse and I used our best endeavours to make Miss Kitwater enjoy her stay.
With her I arranged that Miss Kitwater and her maid should be provided with rooms in the house for that night, and having done so went on to the nearest restaurant. In something less than ten minutes all was settled, and in under twenty they were seated at their meal. At first the girl would not sit down with her mistress, but with her usual thoughtfulness, Miss Kitwater ordered her to do so.
His tone was so rude and his manner so aggressive, that his niece was about to protest. I made a sign to her, however, not to do so. "I don't think you need be afraid, Mr. Kitwater," I said more soothingly than I felt. "My man is a very clever and reliable fellow, and you may be sure that, having once set eyes on Mr. Hayle, he will not lose sight of him again.
It was difficult to say how many feet separated them from the treasure that was to make them lords of all the earth. At last the stone showed signs of moving, and it was possible for Kitwater to insert his bar beneath one corner. He did so, prized it up, and leant upon it with all his weight. It showed no sign of moving, however.
They have been gone more than an hour, and, unless we start at once, we shall be too late to take him before they run him to earth." "Good Heavens! Are you quite sure of this?" "As sure as I can be of anything," he answered. "I have been to their house." "Do not say anything about this to Miss Kitwater," I said hurriedly. "We must make the best excuse we can to account for our absence."
At last they reached the top of the hill and approached the open spot where their camp was situated. "What did I tell you?" said Kitwater, as he looked about the camp and could discover no traces of their two native servants. "It was one of our prowling rascals you saw, and when he comes back I'll teach him to come spying on us. If I know anything of the rattan, he won't do it again."
The whole affair could not have lasted more than a few moments, and yet it seemed like an eternity. Kitwater, with the strength of a madman, had seized Hayle round the waist with one arm, while his right hand was clutching at the other's throat. I saw that the veins were standing out upon Hayle's forehead like black cords. Do what he could, he could not shake off the man he had so cruelly wronged.
The air was close, and from the fact that now and again bats dashed past them into the deeper darkness, they argued that there must be some way of communicating with the open air at the further end. "This is just what the Frenchman told me," said Kitwater, and his voice echoed away along the passage like distant thunder.
"No? no," he said, "I am willing to admit that so far you have won the trick. Let me down easily if you can. I can neither pass nor follow suite. I am right out of my reckoning. Now what do you propose to do?" "Get one of those torches we brought with us, and find out what there is in that hole," Kitwater answered.
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