He, in his turn, began to produce papers.

"At any rate, he had them on him when he was in Christiania the other day.

He was bringing them over here--to me." "On whose behalf ?" asked Allerdyke.
"On behalf of a Russian lady, a Princess, who wished to find a purchaser for them," replied the American promptly.
"In that case--to come to the point," said Allerdyke, "if my cousin James had that property on him when he landed here last night and it wasn't--as it certainly wasn't--on him when I found him this morning---he's been robbed ?" "Robbed--and murdered that he might be robbed!" answered Fullaway.
The two men looked steadily at each other for a while.

Then Allerdyke laid his papers on the table between them.
"You'd better tell me all you know about it," he said quietly.

"Let's hear it all--then we shall be getting towards knowing what to do." "Willingly!" exclaimed the American.