“Come, that is foolish. Every door and window is guarded.”
“Except one.”
“Which?”
“The one I will choose.”
“Mere words! Your arrest is as good as made.”
“Oh! no—not at all.”
“Well?”
“I shall keep the blue diamond.”
Sholmes looked at his watch, and said:
“It is now ten minutes to three. At three o’clock I shall call Ganimard.”