And I know how
fearfully uneasy he was when he got to know that some of us were aware
who Van Sneck was. It has been a pretty tangle for a long time, but the
skein is all coming out smoothly at last. And if we could get the ring
which Henson forced by violence from Van Sneck--"
"Excuse me. He did nothing of the kind."
Chris looked up eagerly.
"Oh," she cried, "have you more to tell me, then?"
"Nothing authentic," Rawlins said; "merely surmise. Van Sneck is going to
recover. If he does it will be hard for Henson, who ought to get away
with his plunder at once. Why doesn't he go and blackmail Lord Littimer
and sell him the ring and clear out of the country? He doesn't do so
because the ring is not yet in his possession."
"Then you imagine that Van Sneck--"
"Still has the ring probably in his possession at the present moment. If
you only knew where Van Sneck happened to be."
Chris rose to her feet with an excited cry.
"I do know," she exclaimed; "he is in the house where he was half
murdered. And Mr. Steel shall know all this before he sleeps to-night."
CHAPTER LI
HERITAGE IS WILLING
Bell's sanguine expectation that Van Sneck would be ready for an
immediate operation was not quite correct.
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