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Updated: May 31, 2025
"There are plenty more, but the best are in this cabinet; and there's a millionaire chap, in New York perhaps you can guess his name, Smith? who has offered a hundred thousand pounds for the thirty little bits of ivory in it." "I think that must have been the great Paul Van Vreck," Knight hazarded. "I thought you'd guess! There aren't many who'd make such an offer.
"You said in your letter to him that you knew where I was, and gave him to understand that we were in touch with each other, or he would have let out nothing." "He has written and told you this!" She spoke breathlessly, as if in fear. "Ah, you give yourself away! No, I haven't heard from Van Vreck since I saw him in New York, and thought I convinced him that my working days for him were over.
Straight and unerring, she found her way back to the window. This time Van Vreck stood still while she opened it and began noiselessly to undo the outside wooden shutters. As she pushed them apart, against the wind, a spray of sand dashed into her face and Van Vreck's, stinging their eyelids. But disregarding the pain, the two passed out into the night.
But it will be bad for me, and perhaps for you, too, if you ever mention Paul Van Vreck in such a connection. Not that you'd be believed." "I sha'n't mention him again." "Just as well not.... But it was my name and my plan I began to speak about. We could go to America, and in England Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Smith would soon be forgotten.
She had heard Paul Van Vreck spoken of as an old man, but the voice was the voice of magnetic youth. He opened the door of the living room, and, carrying his bundle, followed her as she entered. There was only one lamp in this room, a tall reading-lamp with a green silk shade, which stood on a table, its heavy base surrounded by books and magazines.
"I wonder if Paul Van Vreck was here in disguise among the tourists?" said Dick, beginning to laugh. "It would have been the one he'd have chosen if he couldn't grab the lot." "Oh, surely no one in the crowd could have cut a piece of glass out of a cabinet and stolen a miniature without being seen!" Annesley cried. "Dick is half in joke," Constance explained.
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