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As Dave Brainerd and I saw these things, the same thought entered both our minds, and we exchanged one swift glance of mutual meaning, after which we stood and heard Monsieur Lausch ejaculate, and wonder, and question the officers, discuss, and theorize, and prophesy, ourselves saying little, and eager to be away from this place, that we might take counsel together concerning this new thing.
'Gad, but you questioned those people until I began to feel sorry for them. What figure, now, is the dress likely to cut? I laughed. 'In this case let us suppose that the young woman is one of the gang. 'Oh! 'And let us fancy that while she peered at the pink topaz you remember Lausch told us that she excused her nearness by saying that she was very near-sighted? 'That's so.
Now, while he is busy, with his eyes averted for a moment, a hand thrust under the outstretched arm of the guard may gently press something adhesive against the already cut glass and pull it out, and soon, when Lausch bends down to open the safe, or to place some article therein, the hand draws out the little tray of gems; it was small, and could have been concealed under one of those wraps thrown conveniently across the arm.
He is facing outward, and before him, hovering close, are some others, two or three, or more. On the other sides of the octagonal pavilion the other assistants are busy "closing up." Lausch in person presides at the small safe in the centre of the place.
The matter of the diamond robbery, after considerable discussion and some reluctance, had been turned over to a clever Chicago expert, and to help him on, and at the same time free our hands for other matters, we gave him all the information in our possession; told him our theories and suspicions, and gave him a description of the brunette, together, of course, with an account of her transactions with the emerald, which, by the way, had been restored to Monsieur Lausch, not freely and not willingly, but because the dealer in precious stones was not daring enough to risk a threatened exposure in the newspapers.
She was pretty, and I thought artful and vain; and I had learned from another employé of the Lausch Pavilion that she had formed the acquaintance of a rather flashily dressed person wearing much jewellery, and that just before the robbery she had been seen to receive two or three slyly-delivered billets-doux.
The previous dialogue began with Isolde's rousing of Tristan with the words "Lausch' geliebter." Now he turns to her smiling and asks: "Soll ich lauschen?" and she replies: "Lass mich sterben." Her mind is now quite resolved. To another decisive question she replies: "Eternal be our night!"
'About the same as yours, I fancy. 'And what's that? I took out my notebook, wherein I had jotted down the most important items of testimony elicited from the Lausch attendants, saying: 'Get out your notes, Dave; let's see how they agree. Dave produced his own briefer notes, and I began running my finger slowly down the pages. 'It was done during the day. 'Of course! impatiently.
We might believe him to be the originator of, and prime mover in, the Lausch diamond robbery, but the only shadow of corroboration was our belief based upon the fact of Dave's having seen the three together that they were 'partners, and that Delbras was credited with being an expert diamond thief.
It was the Lausch robbery that 'required our presence, so the message read, and Dave had returned an answer promising our presence at the earliest moment of leisure. We did not feel so deeply interested in the Lausch robbery then as in some other matters, but when we had dismissed our boy shadower we went at once to the bureau.
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