The Duke stood thinking.
"Then you didn't drop this," he said and held out his hand.
It held a silver-mounted cigar case.
Sir Harry recognized it with a smothered oath. It was the case he had given to Bill Slewer.
"It is inscribed 'Harry Tanneur,'" said the Duke, "and the gentleman who dropped it in his hurry left me a further token of his regard."
He held up his other hand, and Alicia gave a little cry, for the hand was swathed in a pocket handkerchief, ominously scarlet.
Part V
THE DUKE ADVENTURES
I
It was nearing the period when "something would have to be done." These were Olejoe's exact words. With an action pending in the High Court, the presence of the brokers' man was suggestive rather than conclusive. Olejoe was a splendid splash of colour, a picturesque accessory, but as Tuppy pathetically complained, he had not as yet justified the trouble and expense.