"But he may be at the other end of the world at this moment?" I said.
"That does not matter," he returned. "We know that wherever he may be, you will find him. All we ask you to do is to bring us face to face with him. We will manage the rest. It will be strange then if we are not able to get him to a proper way of thinking."
This was the most unusual case I had had to do with, and for the moment I scarcely knew what to say. I turned to the blind man once more.
"Have you any idea where the man went after he robbed you?"
"He crossed the province of Yunnan into Burmah," he replied. "After that he made his way through Mandalay to Rangoon, and shipped on board the steamer Jemadar for London."
"When did the Jemadar reach London?"
"On the twenty-third of June," he answered. "We have made inquiries upon that point."
I made a note of this and then continued my inquiries.
"One other question," I said. "While we are on the subject, what do you suppose would be the total value of the treasure of which he robbed you?"
"That is very difficult to say," Kitwater replied, and then turned to his companion and held out his hand. The other took it and tapped upon the palm with the tips of his fingers in a sort of dot-and-telegraph fashion that I had never seen used before.