"How do we know where to find this woman in Edinburgh?
Her housekeeper didn't know what hotel she was at--I suppose we'll have to try every one in the place till we come across her!" "Edinburgh is not a very big town," remarked Fullaway.

"I reckon to run her down--if she's still there--within a couple of hours.

It's our first duty, anyway.

If she--as I guess she did--saw those jewels, then we know that James Allerdyke had them on him when he reached Hull, dead sure." "And supposing she can tell that ?" said Allerdyke.

"What then?
How does that help?
The devils who got 'em have already had thirty-six hours' start of us!" The American produced a bulky cigar-case, found a green cigar, and lighted it with a deliberation which was in marked contrast to his usual nervous movements.
"Seems to me," he said presently, "seems very much to me that this has been a great thing! I figure it out like this--somehow, somebody has got to know of what the Princess and your cousin were up to--that he was going to carry those valuable jewels with him to England.