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Updated: June 8, 2025
As she said this she looked up at me with her beautiful trusting eyes, and so overwhelmed me that it was as much as I could do to keep back the words that rose to the tip of my tongue. I answered her to the effect that I had only done my best to promote her comfort, and was about to say something further, when Leglosse made his appearance before us.
While I was speaking there was the sound of a step in the corridor outside and next moment Leglosse entered the room. He was in the highest spirits, as he always was when he was about to undertake a new piece of work. Seeing that I had visitors he came to a sudden standstill. "A thousand pardons," he said in French. "I had no idea that you were engaged. I will wait outside."
We took her to Pompeii, climbed Vesuvius together, visited Capri, Ischia, the Great Museum, the King's Palace, and dined together every evening. I had not been acquainted with the girl much more than a fortnight, and yet I felt as if I had known her all my life, and the greater my experience of her was, the better I liked her. As for Leglosse, he outdid himself in his devotion.
"How beautiful it all is!" she said, "and to think that we are sailing such lovely seas upon such an errand." "You must try not to think about it," I said. "'Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Let us hope that it will all come right in the end. If only Leglosse can get hold of Hayle first, your uncle cannot possibly do him any harm, however much disposed he may be that way.
We made a good meal, at least I know that I did, and when it was eaten, a cab was procured, and in company with Leglosse I said good-bye to the house in which I had spent so short a time, yet in which I had been so miserable. "I shall never know how to repay you for your kindness," I said to my companion as we drove down the street.
At last we became convinced that his story was genuine, and we rewarded the boy accordingly. After he had disappeared we informed Miss Kitwater of the discovery we had made. "You will follow them to Palermo?" "Assuredly, mademoiselle," Leglosse replied. "I have my duty to perform." "Then I must go with you," she answered.
"And you, Kitwater, drop that knife. Hayle, my man, it's all up. The game is over, so you may as well give in." Leglosse was about to advance upon him, warrant in one hand and manacles in the other. "What does this mean?" cried Hayle. His voice located him, and before we could either of us stop him, Kitwater had sprung forward and clutched him in his arms.
Still locked together they rolled over and over, down the declivity towards the edge of the cliff. A great cry from Hayle reached our ears. A moment later they had disappeared into the abyss, while we stood staring straight before us, too terrified to speak or move. Leglosse was the first to find his voice. "My God!" he said, "how terrible! how terrible!"
I questioned him as to the man's general appearance, and when I had learned all he had to tell us, I was perfectly satisfied in my own mind that Hayle was the man who had gone aboard. "He didn't lose much time," said Leglosse. "Mark my words, he'll leave the steamer at Port Said, and will either come back on his own tracks, or go up the Palestine Coast to Jaffa, and thence back to Europe.
"Hitherto," I replied, "I have been acting against Hayle, with the intention of securing him, in order that my clients might have a most important meeting with him. For the future, however, my endeavours will be used in the contrary direction. They must never meet!" "Then the best way to bring about what you desire is to assist me," returned Leglosse.
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