Valombroso shrugged his shoulders again; Inspector Jannaway did and said nothing.
“Come,” said the lawyer impatiently to the former. “Is the letter in your opinion genuine?”
“In-con-test-abilmente, signore.”
“Then it is no good our searching here?”
“Very like, but we must search nevertheless. He may have gone and come back. I say only this: Show me once my man, and I go for him.”
Jannaway uttered a curious sound. If his face had not been so immovable. I should have taken it for a laugh. Mr Shapter glanced at him sharply.
“You seem amused, Inspector Jannaway,” he said.
“Do I, sir?” answered the detective. “I have to seem a lot of things in the course of my duty.”
Shapter flounced his shoulders slightly, and turned away.
“The sooner we get to business the sooner we shall satisfy ourselves,” he said. “Come.”