"I have seen the license and the signed register, and Monsieur de Courtois is known to me personally.

Besides, have you not this rascal's own admission ?" "Why omit the equally damning evidence of conspiracy ?" demanded Curtis.
"What do you mean, you, you----" "Interloper.

How will that serve?
It was you who spoke of conspiring, though I grant you seem to have dropped that item of the indictment.
But Mr.Steingall, as representing the law, should hear the full tale of villainy.

If your lordship will produce de Courtois's letters, cablegrams, and wireless messages to yourself and your confederate, Count Ladislas Vassilan, he will begin to appreciate the true bearing of a rather intricate inquiry." It was a chance shot, but it went home.

Curtis had not spent ten years in counteracting Manchu scheming and duplicity without arriving at certain basic principles in laying bare the methods of double-dealing, and the Earl of Valletort was manifestly disturbed by this cold analysis of facts which he imagined were known to an exceedingly limited circle in New York.
But he had the presence of mind to waive aside Curtis's allegations as unworthy of discussion.
"I address myself to you," he said to Steingall.