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Masie was still sure of it when she bade him good-by, and Kling became convinced of it long before the day was over. As the afternoon wore on, however, he grew calmer. His indomitable will began to reassert itself. His manner became more alert, and his glance clearer. When he found himself able to think, he determined that his first move must be to find Carlin, and that very night.
And that was how the bare corner was filled with three great palms the biggest he had in his shop and the grand salon of the Grande Duchesse Masie Beeswings de Kling at last made ready for her guests.
He had seen too many mix-ups in his time most of them through resisting an officer in the discharge of his duty. Kling, the first thing he knew, would be wearing a pair of handcuffs, and he himself might lose his job. He addressed the detective: "I saw the guy when he come in and I saw him when he went out. Mr. O'Day saw him, too, but he'd skipped afore he got on to his mug.
But that would neither help him to trail the thief nor to secure the mantilla. "Now see here, Mr. Kling," he said, fingering the lapel of Otto's coat, "I've treated you white, now you treat me white. You make me tired with your hot air, and it don't go see, not with me! and now I'll put it to you straight. Will you sell me that mantilla? Here's the money" and he pulled out a roll of bills.
Mans Kling was the surveyor. He laid out the land and made a map of the whole river, with its tributaries, islands, and points, which is still to be found in the royal archives in Sweden. Their clergyman was Reorus Torkillus of East Gothland. The first abode of the newly arrived emigrants was at a place called by the Indians Hopokahacking.
While a nod and a faint smile had done for Kitty, and a "No, I was not very well last night," had sufficed for Kling, whose eyebrows made the inquiry he never finding fault with O'Day for lapses of any kind the case was far different when it came to Masie.
This hill is really too steep for a vehicle to ascend, but the plucky pony and the Kling driver together pulled the gharrie up the zigzags in a series of spasms, and I was glad to get out of the sunshine into a cool, airy house, where there was a hope of breakfast, or rather tiffin. The Residency is large and lofty, and thoroughly draughty, a high commendation so near the equator.
There she was always waiting for him, while the Kling, her attendant, squatted chewing betel nut a little farther on. In time, he had enough. He had had quite enough. She was a stupid fool, half-witted. He grew quite satiated. Also she grew alarmed. Very much alarmed. But always, in the distance, with his back discreetly turned, sat her Kling guardian, the paroled prisoner, chewing betel nut.
As soon as these disastrous facts became known to the heaviest sufferers in S , the proper affidavits were made out, and requisitions obtained for both Dewey and Kling, as defaulters and fugitives from justice.
"Here, let's try one," said Bob, laying down his flowers; and the Kling signed to his companion to give him another, which the Malay did with solemn importance, not a smile appearing on his face, nor a look suggestive of his being anxious to sell the fruit in the boat.
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