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Updated: October 5, 2025
Nothing more now could be done for poor Traynor, and delay might mean much in clearing up the mystery, if mystery it should prove. We were well on our way toward the landing place before I realized that we were going over much the same route that Kennedy and I had taken the day before to reach the home of Guiteras.
Traynor had said, François discovered the new arrival very much awake. He was sitting in front of Helen's bureau, eagerly perusing a bundle of private letters tied with blue ribbon, which he had taken from a drawer. As the door opened, he jumped up quickly, as if detected committing a dishonorable action; but, when he saw who it was, his face relaxed and he gave a grim nod of recognition.
"'Tis Barny Brady that would never turn informer the same thing isn't in him, nor in any of his breed; there's not a man in the parish I'd thrust sooner." "I'd jist thrust him," replied Traynor, "as far as I could throw a cow by the tail.
"That's what we in the American vernacular call 'a knock-out." Helen laughed lightly. There was a swish of silken petticoats, and she disappeared in an alcove, where she sat down at a desk. Keralio looked after her with undisguised admiration and puffed his cigar in silence for a few moments. Then he said: "It's a big job which you and Traynor are doing out there in South Africa.
Traynor is one of two twins so identical in appearance that no one, not even their own mother, knew them apart. One of the children mysteriously disappeared when a mere child and was believed to be dead. Mr. Kenneth Traynor went recently to South Africa on business, and on the diamond fields found in starving condition an unlucky miner who was a perfect counterpart of himself.
But it wasn't necessary to lie about it. I found ze child playing in ze street near the house. I merely told her her mamma wanted her to come home, gave her some candy, and she followed me willingly enough." "By this time the alarm has been given." "Sans doute, monsieur. They probably telegraphed Mrs. Traynor last night that ze child was missing " The voices again stopped.
Sitting in a chair near them, she added quickly: "Won't you let me get you some tea?" Both men shook their heads. Mr. Parker rose. With a mischievous twinkle in his eye, he said: "I'll go over to the others and take a hand at bridge. I want to make some money, Signor I'll leave you to entertain Mrs. Traynor."
He entered quietly, stealthily, and, advancing to where his mistress was, stood in silence, awaiting her orders. "Your master wants you upstairs, François." The man bowed. "Bien, madame!" "Tell Mr. Traynor not to keep you too long, because there's a lot of work to be done downstairs before dinner." "Bien, madame."
"They say her husband's worth ten millions all made from graft." A handsome woman, blazing with diamonds, came up. Addressing Helen, she exclaimed gushingly: "Oh, Mrs. Traynor, isn't this perfectly delightful? How do you do, Mr. Parker. Do you know I haven't enjoyed myself so much this season. What's the news from your dear husband?" "No news as yet." "Dear me you poor thing!
Traynor and the first officer had been very "thick" for a fortnight or so, though that dinner had never come off. Traynor and the first officer had both been promised excellent berths the moment the new steamer arrived that was to take the place of the Idaho.
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