Yet I confess that I could not find anything especially
abnormal about them, as I had about the eyes of Lockwood and
Whitney.
It was some time before she replied, and I gave a hasty glance
about the apartment. Of course, it had been rented furnished, but
she had rearranged it, adding some touches of her own which gave
it quite a Peruvian appearance, due perhaps more to the pictures
and the ornaments which she had introduced rather than anything
else.
"I suppose," she replied, at length, slowly, and looking at us as
if she would bore right through into our minds, "I suppose you
mean the schemes of Mr. Lockwood--and Mr. Whitney."
Kennedy was not to be taken by surprise. "I have heard of their
schemes, too," he replied noncommittally. "Peru seems to be a
veritable storehouse of tales of buried treasure."
"Let me tell you about it," she hastened, nodding at the very
words "buried treasure." "I suppose you know that the old Chimu
tribes in the north were the wealthiest at the time of the coming
of the Spaniards?"
Craig nodded, and a moment later she resumed, as if trying to
marshal her thoughts in a logical order. "They had a custom then
of burying with their dead all their movable property.
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