Capitolo 34
of the theft. He went to Paris to be out of the way when the
discovery was made, and to find the beginning of one clear day of us. That that a
complete I wander about! And to do racing twice me!"
"How did it get to my jewel-case, nevertheless?" Amelia exclaimed.
"That is the question", Charles answered. "You _do_ leaves him/it around this way!"
"And because it didn't do him it immediately steals the whole rivière, and he/she sells the
gems?" I asked.
"Also astute", Charles answered. "This a lot of was the best business. It
it is not to get rid effortless of a great thing as that. In the first place,
the stones are great and precious; in the second place, they is,
well known--every retailer has felt of the Vandrift rivière, and seen
portraits of the form of them. They is marked gems, so to speak. No,
he played a best game--taken a pair of them street, and he/she offered them
to the only a person on earth that was probable to buy them without
suspect. He came here, while meaning to work this a lot of makeup; he had
the connections made in advance rights to the form, and then he stole the
stones and it slipped them in their places. It is a marvelously intelligent
makeup. On my soul, I almost admire the individual."
For Charles a man of business same is, and you/he/she can appreciate business
ability in others.
How Colonel Clay came to know that collar, and to appropriate
two of the stones, we only discovered later a lot. I don't want here
you anticipate that revelation. A thing to a duration is a good rule in
life. For the time being him he/she succeeded in to confuse together us.
We followed above however him to us to Paris, telegraphing in advance to the
Bank of France to stop the notes. It was in vain entirely. They had been
boxed inside half a hour of mine to pay them. The parish priest and his
wife, we founded, it ended the des of Hôtel Deux Mondes for parts unknown
that same afternoon. And, as usual with Colonel Clay, they faded away
in space, not leaving sign behind them. In the other words, them
changed their disguise, without doubt and it reappeared in some other place that