If they were arrested I should be
arrested, too, you see."
"But I mean to solve this mystery, Olinto," I said fiercely, for I was
in no trifling mood. "I'll fathom it if it costs me my life."
"If the signore solves it himself, then I cannot be charged with
revealing the truth," was the man's diplomatic reply. "But I fear that
they are far too wary."
"Armida has lost her life. Surely that is sufficient incentive for you
to bring them all to justice?"
"Of course. But if the law falls upon them, it will also fall upon me."
I explained the terrible affliction to which my love had been subjected
by those heartless brutes, whereupon he cried enthusiastically:
"Then she is not dead! She can tell us everything!"
"But cannot you tell us?"
"No; not all. The secret she knows has never been revealed. They feared
she might be incautious, and for that reason Oberg made the villainous
suggestion of the yachting trip. She was to be drowned--accidentally, of
course."
"She is in St. Petersburg now.
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