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"I told them nothing," Starling replied. "On my soul and honor, I told them nothing!" "It was very wise of you," Sabatini said. "It might have led to disappointments to trouble of many sorts. So you told them nothing, eh? That is excellent. After we have landed, I must hand you over to my valet. Then we will have a little talk." They were in the backwater now, drifting on toward the lawn.
"A record, my young friend!" he exclaimed. "I congratulate you, indeed. You have been gone exactly fifty-five minutes, and I gave you an hour and a half at the least. Our friend Starling was glad to see you, I hope?" "He showed his pleasure," Arnold remarked dryly, "in a most original manner. However, here he is. Shall I take you across now?" "If you please," Sabatini agreed.
Arnold shook his head. "I am making arrangements to find her another apartment," he said. "We have been through some very dark times together. I feel that I have the right to do everything that is necessary. I have no one else to support." Sabatini hesitated. "If one might be permitted," he began, with what was, for him, a considerable amount of diffidence, Arnold interposed a little brusquely.
"Assuredly," Sabatini assented. "First then, who killed Rosario?" "There is a certain directness about your methods," Sabatini said suavely, "which commends itself to me. No one could mistake you for anything but an Englishman." "Tell me who killed Rosario!" Arnold repeated. "As you will," Sabatini replied. "Rosario was murdered by a Portuguese Jew a man of the name of Isaac Lalonde."
He was lying motionless upon the table, and one of the others was apparently trying to restore him. When they found that it was useless, they took him off with them by the back way into Grove Lane. I saw two of them enter a taxicab and the other two make off." "And what did you do then?" Mr. Weatherley asked. "I went and told Count Sabatini what I had seen," Arnold replied. "And after that?"
"That morning," Sabatini continued, "the morning of Rosario's death, one read that the government of that country, which had vainly applied for a loan to all the bankers of Europe with a view to satisfying the claims of the army and navy, had at last succeeded in arranging one through the intervention of Rosario.
Chetwode here will think you're in earnest." "There is, on the contrary, a very great deal of sound common sense," Sabatini asserted, gently, "in all that I have said. I want our young friend, Mr. Chetwode, to be a valued witness for the defense when the misguided gentlemen from Scotland Yard choose to lay a hand upon your shoulder. One should always be prepared, my friend, for possibilities.
I was that one. Almost," Sabatini concluded, with a little sigh, "I am sorry that he is dead. I should have liked once more to have shaken him by the hand." Arnold was speechless. The realization of what it all meant was beginning to dawn upon him. Sabatini was wealthy Ruth was a great heiress. Her treasure ship had come in, indeed and his was passing him by.
They saw Sabatini throw up his hands to heaven and fall, a crumpled heap, into the gutter. Isaac, with the pistol to his own forehead, overbalanced himself in the act of pulling the trigger, and came crashing down, a corpse, on to the pavement. The crowd broke loose, but Arnold was the first to raise Sabatini. A shadow of the old smile parted his whitening lips. He opened his eyes.
Then, afterwards, you will have a ride back to London in the cool air. Either my brother will take you, or we will send a car from here." "It is a charming idea," Sabatini said. "Miss Lalonde, you will not be unkind?" She hesitated only for a moment. They saw her glance at her frock, the little feminine struggle, and the woman's conquest.
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