I want to find out about them and get an introduction." Hunterleys shook his head regretfully.
"I am afraid," he said, "that I can be of no use to you--no practical use, that is.

I can only give you one little piece of advice." "Well, what is it ?" Richard asked eagerly.
"If you are in earnest," Hunterleys continued, "and I will do you the credit to believe that you are, you had better pack up your things, return to your yacht and take a cruise somewhere." "Take a cruise somewhere!" Hunterleys nodded.
"Get out of Monte Carlo as quickly as you can, and, above all, don't think anything more of that young lady.

Get the idea out of your head as quickly as you can." The young man was sitting upright in his chair.

His manner was half minatory.
"Say, what do you mean by this ?" he demanded.
"Exactly what I said just now," Hunterleys rejoined.

"If you are in earnest, and I have no doubt that you are, I should clear out." "What is it you are trying to make me understand ?" Richard asked bluntly.
"That you have about as much chance with that young lady," Hunterleys assured him, "as with that very graceful statue in the square yonder." Richard sat for a moment with knitted brows.
"Then you know who she is, any way ?" "Whether I do or whether I do not," the older man said gravely, "so far as I am concerned, the subject is exhausted.