“It is evident you do not know Ajeeb,” he said.
“Well?”
“That man makes no confidants; he keeps everything entirely to himself.”
“You surely know that he made Henry Stolburst prisoner?”
“As regards that, I’ve learned more from you than I ever heard from him.”
Barry spoke with an air of conviction, but Burt did not believe him.
“Do you mean to say the Abyssinian never told you he held Henry Stolburst prisoner?”
“That’s exactly what I do say.”
“I can hardly credit you.”
“Ajeeb did say something a few days ago about making Henry Stolburst give up the diamond he had stolen.”