“I am sure of it.”

“Your confidence in your friend is quite charming,” remarked Ajeeb.

“Burt Cromwell does not know what it is to fail,” said Enoch.

“I should like to become acquainted with this wonderful man.”

“Perhaps you may, one of these days,” remarked Cook.

“Am I to regard your last speech in the form of a threat?”

“Have you harmed Henry Stolburst?”

“No.”

“Then you have nothing to fear from this detective.”

Again the Abyssinian laughed.