explanation. If so, it is for you to offer it or not, as you think
best. Mr. Bellamy and I are allies in this matter. It is not our
business to interfere with the course of justice. You will run no
risk in parting with that paper.

"Where can I see Bellamy?" Laverick Inquired, rising and taking up
his hat.

"He would go straight to your rooms," she answered. "Did you leave
word there where you had gone?"

"Purposely I did not," Laverick replied. "I had better try and find
him, perhaps."

"It is not necessary," she announced. "No wonder that you feel
yourself to have wandered into the Arabian Nights, Mr. Laverick.
There are two sets of spies who follow you everywhere - two sets that
I know of. There may be another."

"You think that Bellamy will find me?" he asked.

"I am sure of it."

"Then I'll go back to the hotel and wait."

She hurried him away, but at the door she detained him for a moment.

"Mr. Laverick," she said, looking at him earnestly, "somehow or
other I cannot help believing that you are an honest man.