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"Did you spot him, sir?" he asked, eagerly. "That's him as you ran into on the stairs Sacovitch."
"Don't you 'urry me, sir, if you please. I'm a coming to it now, and I think before I've done you'll say, sir, as I've got it. 'And now, says Sacovitch, 'it's all ready, ain't it. The baroness was standing there close by the table. There was decanters on the table, and a lot of soda-water bottles.
I felt inclined, foolish as it will sound, to walk upstairs and to introduce myself sardonically to Herr Sacovitch, since that was the gentleman's name, with the proclamation of my newly-acquired knowledge of his business, and request that he would waste no further time in prosecuting it so far as I was concerned.
She 'elps herself and the other lady to a brandy-and-soda, and says she, just as she let the cork fly, 'Yes, she says, 'I think you've got it. I'd 'ave give a guinea at that minute," said Hinge, "to know what they'd got, but I never thought I should till Mr. Brunow gets up and says, just at that minute, 'Let's see exactly where we stand, 'e says. 'Very well, says Sacovitch; 'it's like this.
Sacovitch stood upright, his cigar balanced between his first and second fingers, dominating, or seeking to dominate, the whole party.
She and Brunow and Constance were, it appeared, going back to town together, and I learned incidentally that the cottage had been rented by Sacovitch for his own purposes, as affording a more convenient and secret meeting-place than any he could find in London.
But now, mind you, says Sacovitch, 'there's this to be considered: the count won't trust his foot on Italian soil, arms or no arms, he says, 'after what's happened to him, unless he's sure of meeting his friends when he get's there. Now what's got to be done, says he, 'is to time the delivery of the money. That money mustn't be paid until we've got our people ready.
"I am not quite sure that I trust that fellow," Sacovitch said a minute later. "It will be your business to keep a strict eye upon him." "Have no fear," said the baroness. "He shall be well watched." There was more talk, but it had no interest for me, though I still listened intently in the hope of learning more.
Then I told her of Hinge's recognition of Sacovitch, of the meeting in Richmond Park, of what Hinge had heard at the cottage; and, finally, of what we had both heard together.
"The first thing, I take it," said Sacovitch, "is to decide that the negotiations we are about to conclude are not likely to be broken by any betrayal on either side." "So far as I am concerned," said Roncivalli, "my being here is guarantee enough. I am not risking my life for nothing, or, if I am, I shall know the reason why."
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