"Is that so?"
he said merely. "What are they?"
"Well," resumed Lockwood, "I wasn't in Lima at the time. I was up
here. But they tell me that there was something crooked about the
way that that dagger was got away from an Indian--a brother of
Senora de Moche." "Yes," replied Kennedy, "I know something about
it. He committed suicide. But what has that to do with Norton?"
Lockwood hesitated, then shrugged his shoulders. "I should think
the inference was plain," he insinuated. Then, looking at Craig
fixedly, as though to take his measure, he added, "We are not out
of touch with what is going on down there, even if we are several
thousand miles away."
I wondered whether he had any information more than we had already
obtained by X-raying the letter to Whitney signed "Haggerty." If
he had, it was not his purpose, evidently, yet to disclose it. I
felt from his manner that he was not playing a trump-card, but was
just feeling us out by this lead.
"There was some crooked business about that dagger down there as
well as here," he pursued. "There are many interests connected
with it. Don't you think that it would be worth while watching
Norton?" he paused, then added: "We do--and we're going to do it.
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