I had had dealings with that firm on many occasions.
"Well, as I went into their office, I saw the gentleman who has been paying his attentions to the lady we have been discussing, come out.

I have an excellent memory for faces, and when I saw him to-night entering the Cafe des Ambassadeurs, I recognized him immediately.

Thus the mystery is explained." He shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands apart, like a conjurer who has just vanished a rabbit or an orange.
"Has the man of whom we are speaking done very wrong ?" he inquired.
"The stones he sold in London and Amsterdam belonged to himself and his two partners," I answered.

"He has not given them their share of the transaction.

That is all." "They had better be quick about it then, or they are not likely to get anything.