The servant closed the door and vanished.
Old King Brady strode over to her and exclaimed:
"We want those smuggled diamonds."
"Really, you are provoking. I have no smuggled diamonds."
"But you know where they are!"
"Do I?"
"Yes. You fooled us once, very cleverly, by passing them to the hotel hall-boy, but you shan't do so again, I can tell you."
She laughed as if enjoying a good joke.
"Well," she said, finally, "evasions are useless I see."
"Perfectly!"