That's a clever forgery, that paper of legal adoption, I admit.

Must have had legal advice for that.

What did you pay the lawyers ?" He stared at me with compressed lips.
"Not ready to confess yet?
Well, you will be.

By the way, who was that Pierre who wrote telling you of Philip's death?
Not Vonique, was it ?" "You damn white devil!" he burst forth, tortured beyond resistance.
"What do you know about him?
Who told you ?" "You 'll learn it all soon enough." "You 're a sneaking detective!" "Oh, no, Henley; I 'm merely a man who drifted into this adventure blindly, but now I am going to fight it out for sake of the woman.
It's a pity for you that you did n't tap me on the head a bit harder back in the cellar." His teeth ground together savagely, and he burst into a string of oaths.
"That's enough," and I got to my feet.

"I see I 'll have to gag you again." "Where 's the steward ?" "Asleep in the pantry when I came in here." "And Herman--has n't he got on board yet ?" "Oh, yes; two hours, or more, ago.