"There have been enough crimes
committed without adding another murder to the list."
"Keep on watching the de Moches," requested Kennedy as Norton made
his way to the door.
"Yes," agreed Norton. "They will bear it--particularly Alfonso.
They are hot-blooded. You never know what they are going to do,
and they keep their own counsel. I might hope that Lockwood would
forget; but a de Moche--never."
I cannot say that I envied him very much, for doubtless what he
said was true, though his danger might be mitigated by the fact
that the dagger was no longer in his Museum. Still, it would never
have left Peru, I reflected, if it had not been for him, and there
is, even in the best of us, a smouldering desire for revenge.
Lockwood was more than prompt. I had expected that he would burst
into the laboratory prepared to clean things out. Instead he came
in as though nothing at all had happened.
"There's no use mincing words, Kennedy," he began. "You know that
I know what has happened. That scoundrel, Norton, has told Inez
that you had shoe-prints of some one who was in the Museum the
night of the robbery and that those shoe-prints correspond with
mine. As a matter of fact, Kennedy, I was there.
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