Streuss shook his head.

"You don't know the man. He is an Englishman, and if he had any
idea what that document contained, our chances of buying it would
be small indeed. This is what I think will happen. Mademoiselle
will try to obtain it, and try in vain. Then Bellamy will tell him
the truth, and he will part with it willingly. In the meantime, I
believe that it is in his possession.

"The evidence is slender enough," objected Kahn.

"What if it is!" Streuss exclaimed. "If it is only a hundred to one
chance, we have to take it. I have no fancy for disgrace, Adolf,
and I know very well what will happen if we go back empty-handed."

The telephone bell rang. Streuss took off the receiver and held it
to his ear. The words which he spoke were few, but when he laid
the instrument down there was a certain amount of satisfaction in
his face.

"At any rate," he announced, "this man Laverick did not part with
the document to-day. Mademoiselle Louise and Bellamy have been
sitting in the Park for an hour. When they separated, she drove
home and dropped him at his club. Up till now, then, they have not
the document. We shall see what Mr. Laverick does when he leaves
business this evening; if he goes straight home, either the document
has never been in his possession, or else it is in the safe in his
office; if he goes to Mademoiselle Idiale's - "

"Well?" Kahn asked eagerly.