“Yes; the lecturer knows the chap as Sam Henry.”
“I don’t think there will be much difficulty in finding Enoch if he is in New York.”
“You know him?”
“I’ve seen him a couple of times; he used to hang out with the gang that made Mike Quick’s place their headquarters.”
“I wonder what possessed him to become a servant for the explorer?”
“Oh, I suppose that was a sudden freak upon his part.”
“You don’t know the fellow Stolburst calls Dick Kidd?” remarked Burt.
“I may, but I don’t know him by that name,” replied Frank. “If the diamond is as valuable as described, Kidd will have some difficulty in disposing of it.”
“Well, I won’t move in the affair until I see Stolburst’s references and satisfy myself that he is straight up and down.”
On the morning following Burt visited the bankers whom the lecturer had given as references. They joined in pronouncing Stolburst as a perfectly reliable man. Afterward Burt wrote his new client that he would undertake the case at the terms agreed upon.