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Updated: September 12, 2025
"But you can do your talking to me. Again how much do you know in this matter?" "Enough to make it worth your while to negotiate with me," answered Yada. "Is that as plain as your question?" "It's what I expected," said Levendale. "You want to sell your knowledge." "Well?" assented Yada, "I am very sure you are willing to purchase."
"Yes!" he answered readily, "Mr. Chang Li Mr. Chen Li. Oh, yes!" "I want to ask you a question, Mr. Yada," said Ayscough, bending forward and assuming an air of confidence. "When did you see those two gentlemen last either of them?" Yada leaned back in his comfortably padded chair and cast his quick eyes towards the ceiling. Suddenly he jumped to his feet.
And somewhere, that cursed young Jap was fleeing away through the London streets having cheated him, Ayscough, at his own game! He had already reckoned things up in connection with Yada. Yada had been having him even as Melky Rubinstein had suspected and suggested all through that conversation at Gower Street.
None of the printed text, however, have yada. In the first line of 50, the Bengal reading is Satam. I prefer the Bombay reading which is atyantam. For, again, paryayasya in the beginning of the second line, the Bombay text reads anayassa which is better. The Bombay reading which I adopt is ajnayamanas cha. The Bengal reading seems to be incorrect.
"I have been there yes, a few times," assented Yada. "Not very lately. But where is Chang Li?" "That's what we don't know and what we want to know," said Ayscough. "He's not been seen at the hospital since the 20th. He didn't turn up there nor Chen, either, at a class, that day. And you say you haven't seen them either since the 18th?" "I was not at the hospital on the 19th," replied Yada.
The bluff was going down Melky felt, as much as saw, that Yada was swallowing it in buckets.
He succeeded in defending his castle of Yada against Nobunaga's attacks, and finally the Owari general, deceived by a rumour to the effect that Takeda Shingen had reached the neighbourhood of Gifu with a strong army, retired hurriedly from Ise.
"A plain and a wide question, Mr. Levendale!" he answered, with a laugh. "I see that you are anxious to enlist my services. Evidently, you believe that I do know something. But you are not the owner of the diamond! Which of these gentlemen is?" Levendale made a half impatient gesture towards Stephen Purvis, who nodded at Yada but remained silent. "He is!" said Levendale, testily.
But Ayscough knew one useful thing he had memorized the letters and numbers of the taxi-cab in which Yada had sped by him and Mirandolet, L.C. 2571 he had kept repeating that over and over. Now he took out his note- book and jotted it down and that done he set off to the police-station, intent first of all on getting in touch with New Scotland Yard by means of the telephone.
And then he, Parslett, now put two and two together and had fixed on Chen Li as the culprit. And now how much, was Chen Li going to pay for silence? According to Yada, Chen Li had had little to say his chief anxiety, indeed, had been to find out what the man wanted. Parslett was definite enough about that.
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