It is not difficult to prophesy what is going to happen to that child, that dog.
Karlov was at this moment reaching out toward a satisfactory solution relative to the disappearance of the gems.

They had not been found on his enemy; they had not been found in the Gregor apartment; the two men assigned to the task of securing them would not have risked certain death by trying to do a little bargaining on their own initiative.
In the first instance they had come forth empty-handed.

In the second instance--that of intimidating the girl to disclose his whereabouts--neither Vladimir nor Stemmler had returned.Sinister.

The man in the dress suit again?
Conceivably, then, the drums were in the possession of this girl; and she was holding them against the day when the fugitive would reclaim them.

The advertisement was a snare.