'Why shouldn't those two young people be made happy ?' he said.

'I haven't seen the girl,' nor had he, then, 'but I like Curtis, and she won't get a better husband if she searches the island of Manhattan.' So we allowed Lord Valletort and the Count to believe that it was their set of hirelings who killed poor Hunter, whereas Balusky and Viviadi only tied up de Courtois, and were quaking with fear when they heard of the murder, because they assumed he had been killed by some other scoundrels, and that they would be held responsible.

It was they who gave us the names of Rossi and Martiny as the likely pair, and the bluff I threw with Lamotte came off." "For whom were Rossi and Martiny acting?
You have never told me," said Curtis.
"Don't ask, sir.

But I don't mind giving you a sort of hint.

You know, better than I do probably, that Hungary is seething with revolutionary parties, which are more bitter against each other than against the common enemy, Austria.