"Then you knew--!"
"I suspected."
"How long--?"
"Since the night those strange people were here and tried to make you
unhappy with their stupid talk of the Lone Wolf. I suspected, then; and
when I came to know you better, I felt quite sure..."
"And now you _know_--yet hesitate to turn me over to the police!"
"No such thought has ever entered my head. You see--I'm afraid you
don't quite understand me--I have faith in you."
"But why?"
She shook her head. "You mustn't ask me that."
At the end of a long moment he said in a broken voice: "Very well: I
won't ... Not yet awhile ... But this great gift of faith in me--I
can't accept that without trying to repay it."
"If you accept, my friend, you repay."
"No," said Michael Lanyard--"that's not enough. Your jewels must come
back to you, if I go to the ends of the earth to find them. And"--man's
undying vanity would out--"if there's anyone living who can find them
for you, it is I."
XI
AU REVOIR
Early in the afternoon Eve de Montalais made it possible for Lanyard to
examine the safe in her boudoir without exciting comment in the
household.
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