And if he
didn’t, what was the good of seeing him?
“I wish he was a woman,” she said, “then I could make him my friend. Her new husband had paid for a cadre of escorts back to
Mantua. To-morrow they will know the truth. I find you were excessively brave, mon
pauvre. "Surely," he added, staring at Rowland, "either
I'm greatly mistaken, or it is—"
"You are not mistaken, Baptist," returned Rowland with a gesture of silence; "it
is your old friend. She did not question or analyze the craving; she took the plunge
joyously. His quiet, kindly smile implied his serene disbelief in any confessible thing. "
The spinster had no retort to offer such directness. "
"Help me, Jack!" shouted Thames, "or I shan't be able to keep the villain down. But Miss Stanley took no notice
of these things. What could be
simpler than, with a set of inquiries relative to a South Sea tramp registered as
The Tigress, to make a tour of all the marine insurance companies in HongKong? O'Higgins proceeded to put the idea into action; and by noon he had in
his possession a good working history of the owner of The Tigress and the exact
latitude and longitude of his island. A dozen words, and he saw Enschede as clearly as
though he stood hard by in the flesh.
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