"Tell me. What? I'm dying, Jack, to know everything concerning her. Who
is that fellow Oberg?"
"Her enemy. She, by mere accident, learned his secret and Woodroffe's,
and they now both live in deadly fear of her."
"And for that reason she was taken to Siena, where some villainous
Italian doctor was bribed to render her deaf and dumb."
He nodded in the affirmative.
"But Chater?"
"I know very little concerning him. He may have conspired with them, or
he may be innocent. It seems as though he were antagonistic to their
schemes, if Leithcourt and his family really fled from him."
"And yet he was on board the _Lola_. Indeed, he may have helped to
commit the burglary at the Consulate," I said.
"Quite likely," he answered. "But our first object must be to rediscover
Muriel. Paget says she is in Eastbourne. If she is there, we shall
easily find her. They publish visitors' lists in the papers, don't they,
like they do at Hastings?" Then he added: "Visitors' lists are most
annoying when you find your name printed in them when you are supposed
officially to be somewhere else.
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