"And the other rugs?" I inquired.
"The same price, Monsieur."
The rugs went down.
Slowly, and without a shadow of argument, the prices of the other valuables were asked, received, and entered.
With a shaking hand I counted up the figures—eight thousand six hundred francs.
I passed the paper to Berry.
"Will you pay him?" I said. "I haven't got enough at the bank here, and you can't expect him to take a foreign cheque."
"Right oh!"
"He may not want to part with them all at one house," said Daphne.
"You'd better ask him."
Adèle smiled very charmingly.