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Roger was aware, however, that Beverley loved snow-white pearls. "Any minute Simon Lecourt may be here," he said to Lovoresco. "When he's looked at the things, I'll sign and hand you my cheque for two hundred and sixty thousand dollars." Lovoresco smiled under his dyed moustache, but the wonderful eyes, for which men of his race are famous, lit angrily.
Roger had seen this box and its contents; so, instead of watching a tiny gold key fitted into a miniature padlock, he read the letter authorizing Count Lovoresco, in the name of his Queen, to sell in America a rope of pearls, for the benefit of the soldiers' orphans of her country. "This clears the deck," remarked Roger.
That afternoon O'Reilly had passed the building, informed by Count Lovoresco who lived there, and had looked up with a certain curiosity. He remembered the number, and in leaving the Dietz had been able to give the address. The taxi stopped, and O'Reilly prepared to carry the fainting girl into the house. She would be a light load. As he got out of the taxi with Clo in his arms a man came forward.
At a quarter to four the cheque having been signed Roger was shaking hands with the jewel expert he had summoned, and bowing to Count Lovoresco. The pearls were his, and he was impatient for Beverley. In five or six minutes she ought to arrive. Beverley stepped into the lift as Count Lovoresco and Simon Lecourt stepped out. As they passed she heard Roger's name, and her heart jumped.
"You've brought the pearls, of course?" Roger asked. "Yes, Mistaire Sand, I bring ze pearls," announced Count Lovoresco. "And the letter from the Queen?" "From 'er Majesty's secretaire," Count Lovoresco corrected. "'Ere it is." He drew from a breast pocket a square envelope with a crown and a monogram on the flap.
"I think some other smart men might have changed them without you or me being smart enough to know the difference," Roger explained. "I believe in making a ship watertight before she goes to sea." "You are right," Lovoresco said, shrugging his shoulders. "I am pleased once more to meet ze expert." "Mr. Simon Lecourt," announced the butler.
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