"But he looked after your luggage at your request!"
"Yes! he did so, certainly, but what does that prove?"
"Simply this, that you know the gentleman."
Mrs. Belswin would have liked to deny this, as she saw from the production of the diamond pin, and the mention of Ferrari, that Maxwell knew something; but she was so afraid, lest, failing her, he should ask Kaituna, and so possibly discover more than she wished, that she answered him frankly.
"Yes, I do know the gentleman."
"Ah! and you know his name?"
"Yes! His name is--but why do you want to know?"
"Because he wore this diamond pin on the day I saw him with you, and this diamond pin----"
"Yes! yes!" cried Mrs. Belswin, breathlessly, clasping her hands.
"--Was found on the terrace of Thornstream the morning after the murder."