Maybe I passed it along to the Paris man, and he sold it along with the corpse to the Maltese gent." "But I tell you this copy was found in Sir Frank's room," insisted De Gayangos.

"How did it come to be there ?" Captain Hervey rose and took a turn up and down the room.

When Cockatoo came in his way he calmly kicked him aside.
"What do you think, Mr.Hope ?" he asked, coming to a full stop before Archie, while Cockatoo crept away with a very dark scowl.
"I don't know what to think," replied that young gentleman promptly, "save that Sir Frank is my very good friend, and that I take his word that he knows nothing of how the manuscript came to be hidden in his bookcase." "Huh!" said Hervey scornfully, and took another turn up and down the room in silence.

"I surmise that your friend isn't a white man." Hope leaped to his feet.
"That's a lie," he said distinctly.
"I'd have shot you for that down Chili way," snapped the skipper.
"Possibly," retorted the artist dryly, "but I happen to be handy with my revolver also.

I say again that you lie.