"She would not have written that letter had she known nothing." "That was bluff.

I explained all that." "Bluff be hanged!" cried Braddock, only he used a more vigorous word.
"I do not believe that she would have dared to act on such a slight foundation.

I shall see her myself this very afternoon and force her to confess.

In one way or another I shall find the assassin and make him disgorge those emeralds under the penalty of being hanged.

Then I can sell them and finance my Egyptian expedition." "But you forget, Professor, that the emeralds, when found, belong to Don Pedro." "They don't," rasped the little man, turning purple with rage.