“What for?”
“This business of Limézy and Aurelie.” [[296]]
“Limézy? Aurelie? Drowned, vanished, impossible to find!”
“They’ll be found in the grotto.”
“They will not. We’ll go round to-morrow morning, tie a couple of big stones to their legs and drop them in the lake.”
“And Limézy’s car?”
“We’ll drive away in it as soon as we’ve sunk the bodies; and no one will ever know that they came here. Every one will think that the girl has been carried off from the sanatorium by her lover and that they’re traveling about the country. That’s my plan. What do you think of it?”
“Excellent, you old blackguard,” said a voice close to them. “But there’s one great drawback to it.”
They turned their heads with a start of terror. A man was squatting on the turf in oriental fashion a few feet away on their left
“A great drawback,” the man repeated. “All this fine plan depends on deeds done. But what happens if the lady and gentleman of the grotto took it into their heads to clear out?”