taking action, to accumulate their proofs. For that reason they yesterday dissuaded Baraka from swearing out a warrant against you and today they have given the same advice to me."
"I beg pardon. Am I to understand that you have done me the honor to apply to the police for an arrest warrant for me?"
"At my question, the police have made it very plain to me that it is in my power to take out a warrant for you if I wish."
"You mean for the theft of the emerald?"
"Yes. Or if I wish to avoid making a direct charge of that, I could point out that—in case you tried to escape consequences here and fled—an indefinite proportion of my collaterals would be at your mercy."
"So our visit here last evening was not entirely a blind?" he returned. "Thank you
