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Updated: June 22, 2025
"The morning I received Krantz's summons was the morning I had set aside for a special study of S M , whose case has recently commanded so much public attention; but the moment I read the wire, I changed my plans, without either hesitation or compunction. Krantz was Krantz, and his dictum could not be disobeyed.
"If you don't like, you needn't." "I do like!" he laughed. "What do you know about Krantz's Keller?" "I'll tell you that, and other things, when we arrive," said Clo. "Please, what time is it?" "No thanks to you that I have a watch, and can answer that question," he thrust at her slyly. The street lights turned to ivory the small face from which Clo had pushed back the veil.
He was happy because she had summoned him, excited because they were going side by side toward some unknown adventure. He looked at his watch which had been retrieved from the wall safe, and said that the time was twelve minutes to eleven. Krantz's Keller was in Fourteenth Street, and they could reach there at the hour, for already the cab was moving in the right direction.
But scarcely had they cleared the raft, when, as by one sudden thought, they turned round and pulled away in the opposite direction. Krantz's voice was heard by Philip, and his sword was seen to flash through the air a moment afterwards he plunged into the sea, and swam to the raft.
Denham had said that her husband was out, but she knew where he was, and would 'phone; if he O'Reilly would hold the line she'd have an answer "in no time." Presently he had been rewarded by "getting" Denham, who, on hearing that he was urgently wanted, promised to cut short some work he was doing late at the office, and taxi to Krantz's.
He commenced his narrative with no injunctions, for he felt that if Krantz could not respect his secret for his secret's sake, or from good will towards him, he was not likely to be bound by any promise; and as, during the day, the raft passed by the various small capes and headlands of the island, he poured into Krantz's ear the history which the reader is acquainted with.
"By Jove, I'm glad to have you safe!" he said in a warm, kind voice, which for some reason made Clo want to cry. "I've a hundred things to say and ask, you child or imp, but first of all, where do you want to go? Home, or " "To Krantz's Keller," Clo finished the sentence. "Do you know where it is?" "Yes," said O'Reilly. "I know, though I've never been. But " "I've got to go there," said Clo.
This struck the girl as ominous, for it might mean that Kit had appeared in person at the other end of the line. It might mean that some trap was being laid to catch Kit's double. "If she turns up, and tells everything, they can't let me get away with what I know, even about Krantz's Keller," Clo told herself.
"You don't need to be told that it's a gigantic job." Krantz's benevolent features expressed blandest regret. "Now isn't it a pity that misconception should be so widespread?" he exclaimed, apparently to the writhing ornaments of the ceiling. "Isn't it a pity? But it's so often true! Take that street railway bill of yours last winter: how that enlightened measure was denounced!" Shelby scowled.
You sent her something rather important by Miss Blackburne, the pearl-stringer that you told me about that night in the taxi and in Krantz's Keller. I talked to the woman and cursed myself afterward for stopping to speak, when I found you and saw how every instant had counted. I oughtn't to have waited even for a second." "Oh, you couldn't have saved me if you'd come up without speaking to Ellen.
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