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"I meant to imply that if friendship only links you with Lady Heyburn, the chain may quite easily snap," he remarked. He looked at his friend, much puzzled. He could see no point in that observation. Krail read what was passing in the other's mind, and added, "I know, mon cher ami, that affection from her ladyship is entirely out of the question. The gossips are liars. And "
Half an hour later, after a chat with the rural inspector, the pair went along to the cell behind the small village police-station in order that the stranger should read over to the prisoner the warrant he had brought with him from London the application of the French police for the arrest and extradition of Felix Gerlach, alias Krail, alias Benoist, for the wilful murder of Edna Mary Bryant in the Forest of Pontarme, near Chantilly.
"The old man dare not lift his voice for his daughter's sake." "Ah," exclaimed Krail, "that's just where you've acted injudiciously! You've set him against her; therefore he wouldn't spare her." "It was imperative. I couldn't afford to be found prying into the old man's papers, could I? I got impressions of his key while walking in the park one day. He's never suspected it." "Of course not.
A big fire had been made in the kitchen, and their clothes were rapidly drying. Hamilton, by careful questions, endeavoured to obtain from the girl some information concerning her dealings with the man Krail. But she was too wary. It was evident that she had some distinct object in concealing the fact that he had deliberately flung her into the water after that heated altercation. Felix Krail!
That is the way you treat your friend and benefactor, the man who is blind and helpless! Come, give them back to Sir Henry, and at once." "You must ask Krail," stammered the man, now so cornered that all further excuse or denial had become impossible. "That's unnecessary.
"Ah, there we have the puzzle!" replied the man Krail, his accent being an unfamiliar one so unfamiliar, indeed, that those unacquainted with the truth were always placed in doubt regarding his true nationality. "But you've made inquiry?" asked his friend quickly. "Of course; but the business is kept far too close. Every precaution is taken to prevent anything leaking out," Krail responded.
"Ah, then, perhaps he can furnish us with further facts regarding this most extraordinary statement of my daughter's," the blind man exclaimed. "Gabrielle has just told her father the truth regarding a certain tragic occurrence in the Forest of Pontarme. Explain to us all you know, Edgar." "What I know," said Hamilton, "is very quickly told. Has Miss Heyburn mentioned the man Krail?"
After that watchful afternoon in the Boulevard des Capucines, he had sat in a corner of the Cafe Terminus listening to Krail, who rubbed his hands with delight and declared that he now held the most powerful group in Europe in the hollow of his hand. For the past six years or so gigantic coups had been secured by that unassuming and apparently third-rate financial house of Lenard et Morellet.
The first few miles were along the delightful valley of the Doaub, which we reluctantly quitted, and after crossing a low ridge descended through broken country till we reached the foot of the hills, where I observed for the first time a genuine Tartar krail, composed of a number of small black blanket tents fastened to a kind of wattle.
"From what?" "From exposure. To me, ruin is not a matter of days, but of hours." "You're speaking in enigmas. I don't understand you," he cried impatiently. "Krail and I have at last been successful. We know now the true source of your husband's huge income, and in order to prevent exposure he must pay and pay us well too." "Yes," she laughed hysterically.
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