Monte struggled hard to break away from his assailant. His strength was almost as nothing compared to that of Quick. The latter drew a knife from inside his coat.
“Murder! Help!”
The old man’s cries echoed and reechoed throughout the house.
“The diamond?”
“Help!”
Mike’s knife was driven into the struggling man’s breast. Then the dive-keeper hurried from the scene.
CHAPTER XIV.
BURT KNOCKED OUT.
After being stabbed by Enoch Cook, poor Pierre Jacquet lay motionless upon the pavement. He was found there by the policeman on that beat, who had him conveyed to the Oak Street station. From there Pierre was taken to one of the public hospitals.
There he related the circumstances attending the stabbing. Burt saw an account of the affair in the newspapers, and visited the hospital.
Monsieur Jacquet welcomed his visitor upon learning the latter was a detective. The Frenchman’s wound was deep and ugly, but not fatal. Burt found him propped up with pillows, and he seated himself at the sufferer’s bedside.