“And why not?”
“Because we shall bring influence to bear upon him.”
“How?”
“By the conditional surrender of the list of the Twenty-seven!”
“Have you it?”
“No, but I shall have it.”
His certainty had not wavered. He made the statement with equal calmness and faith in the infinite power of his will.
She had lost some part of her confidence in him and she shrugged her shoulders lightly:
“If d’Albufex has not purloined the list, one man alone can exercise any influence; one man alone: Daubrecq.”
She spoke these words in a low and absent voice that made him shudder. Was she still thinking, as he had often seemed to feel, of going back to Daubrecq and paying him for Gilbert’s life?