Both looked longingly at the coins.
"Monsieur," the one he had first addressed regretted, "there is indeed nothing to be known.

At this hotel the wages are good.

It is the finest situation a man may gain in Monte Carlo or elsewhere, but if anything like this happens, there is to be silence.

One dares not break the rule." Hunterleys shrugged his shoulders.
"All right," he said.

"I shall find out what I want to know, in time." The men returned unwillingly to their tasks.